ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...
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During the storms of the past ye «r the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION contributed to the saving of 1121 live: from various shipwrecks—Hatty Paper.
O ALL ye who sit in comfort By the brightly-blazing fire, Do you ever...
Category: Poetry
STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...
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FIGURES already available show that the year 1958 has been similar to the two preceding years in the demands made on life-boat crews. When a record figure for peacetime of 745 launches on service was established in 1956, this seemed an...
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Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1941 During the year life-boats were launched 747 times. Of these launches 481 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
Category: Services
SCARBOROUGH.—The flshing-coble Jane and Ann, of Scarborough, was making for the harbour in a strong gale on the 28th April and as it was clear that she would encounter considerable danger in coming in, the sea being very heavy, the Life-boat...
The Robsons of North Sunderland.
By Mr. M. R. Norris, Honorary Secretary of the North Sunderland Station.
THERE have been Robsons in the life- boats at North Sunderland for at least ninety-seven years,...
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75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
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Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 16 November 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,695 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,257 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
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