Flag days have been beating all records in this 'Year of the Lifeboat'.
Here are just a few results: On London lifeboat day, March 19, £69,355 was collected, nearly £9,000 more than in 1973. For the flag...
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt...
FEBRUARY 10TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in difficulties half a mile east of Blyth pier, and at eleven o’clock the motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was...
One morning (raw it was and wet— A foggy day in winter time) A woman on the road I met, Not old, though something past her prime: Majestic in her person, tall and straight; And like a Roman matron's was her mien and...
Category: Poetry
THE portrait on the cover is of Holden 'N. Sheader, who has been the motor mechanic at the Scarborough station for 28 years. On the 9th of December, 1951, he won the Institution's thanks on vellum for his part in the service to the...
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THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, and more especially those connected with the Ladies' Auxiliaries, have been greatly encouraged and stimulated in their self-denying efforts during the past summer by the gracious...
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THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...
Category: Services
On the 25th of November the services of the Ramsgate life-boat were again brought into requisition. At daybreak on that day, the wind blowing a heavy gale at the time from N.N.W., a brigantine was observed, with signals of distress flying,...
JANUARY 20TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. While bound for Dublin laden with coal the S.S. Saint Kenneth. of Dublin. sprang a leak. but succeeded in reaching Dun Laoghaire Harbour on the night of the 19th January. While she was being beached...
JULY 18TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH,.
DORSET. A service aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was picked up by another boat. - Rewards, £ 3 5 s ..