As readers of The Life-Boat are aware, the Institution is always glad to receive sums for the provision not only of Lifeboats, but of the many indispensable accessories, which vary from a slipway, costing sometimes as much as, and more than,...
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FEBRUARY 12TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 3.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was in difficulties near Hayle Bar. The motor life-boat Caroline Oaks Aver and William Maine was launched fifteen minutes later. She...
Later the Queen and the Duke moved among their guests on the palace lawns: never before have so many lifeboat supporters been found at one place at one time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — While the local fishing fleet was at sea in the early morning of the 29th of November, 1950.
the wind increased from the north- north-west until by nine o'clock it was blowing a gale, causing a...
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.32 on the night of the 1st of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen five miles north-west of Buckie. There was a light east-south-easterly wind with a...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Late on the night of the 16th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that two barges were dragging their anchors. The weather was bad, and the coxswain kept in touch with the...
Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...
There seemed to be no end to the ideas devised for 'Operation Lifeboat', the Scouts' 'Year of the Lifeboat' project to raise H00,000 to pay for an offshore lifeboat. (Top left) Bristol South West District Cubs collected... - View image in PDF
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Inaugural Ceremony at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
ON 3rd September the Inaugural Cere- mony took place at Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex, of a boarding boat. The Motor Life-boat which was stationed at Walton in 1928 lies...
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WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...
Category: Poetry