LIV. BULL BAY (Anglesey) The Curling, 34 feet by 7£ feet, 10 oars.
"READER, have you ever been at Ply- mouth?" asks the versatile Captain Fred- erick Marryatt in opening one of the happiest productions of...
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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
By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.
THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.
It is an institution...
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A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
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The Record Month by Month 1946 Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore boats Rescue to Save Boats January . 51 103 4 15 - February . ...
Category: Annual Reports
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
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WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
Category: Services
By REAR-ADMIRAL W. S. REYNOLDS, Commandant U.S. Coast Guard.Anderson tendered his services to the surf man. The acceptance of the offer automatically placed Anderson, for the time, in charge of the station crew, a responsibility which, as...
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'Right Way Up', the RNLI exhibition held at the Science Musuem, Kensington, this summer, was opened by Jimmy Savile, OBE. He is seen (right) with Richard Oakley, MBE, (r.) designer of the first modern selfrighting lifeboat, the37ft... - View image in PDF
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Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
Category: Services