THE night was dark and stormy, The sea rolled mountains high, When our coxswain came in haste, And thus did breathless cry : Make haste and launch the Life-boat, A vessel's on the rocks; Be quick and get all ready; Now overhaul these...
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Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 14th of May. 1956, the master of the S.S. Earl Tkorpin re- ported to the honorary secretary that a Mayday distress signal had been broadcast by Wick radio station. The Kirkwall coastguard...
Children at Ramsgate, Kent, assisted the local ladies' life-boat guild when they staged a carnival last year.
A banner fastened to the masts of their boat stated: 'Ramsgate ladies' life-boat guild—we need your... - View image in PDF
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned to say a yacht was being towed by the S.S. Cora fifteen miles south-west of Portland Bill and to ask if the life-boat would take over...
THE National Service for Seafarers, which is held each autumn, in St.
Paul's Cathedral, took place on 15th October.
At this Service the Institution is, of course, always represented, but this being the...
Category: Articles
PORTHDINLLAEN.—Signals of distress were shown from some vessels in Carnarvon Bay on the night of the 25th January. The crew of the Life-boat George Moore quickly assembled, launched their boat, and proceeded in the direction of the light,...
The Coastguard Association A VOLUNTARY national organisation to look after the interests of Coastguards is now in process of formation. Entitled 'The Coastguard Association', it will be open to all serving and retired regular and...
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MAY MEETING GRIMNESS, ORKNEYS. About 2 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1940, a ship’s boat, which had got away from the S.S.
Giralda, of Leith, after she had been bombed by German aeroplanes, was seen drifting ashore...
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A CONGREGATION of nearly a thousand people filled the West Cliff Congrega- tional Church at Whitby, on the evening of 28th October, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla on Saltwick Nab, Whitby,...
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