At 8 A.M. on the 26th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard that one of H.M. Torpedo Destroyers was rapidly drifting towards the break- water, and that the crew of the Life- boat Friern Watch should be...
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick seaman on board the S.S. Fridtjof Nansen, of Kristiansand, Norway. The Norwegian steamer...
On the 15th October, during a strong westerly breeze, the lugger Castletown, of Belfast, in working out of Howth Harbour, struck on a rock near Ireland's Eve. The tide being at the time just on the turn, her position became very perilous...
4 May this year marked the 200th anniversary of Sunderland lifeboat station, the first RNLI station in England to reach this landmark. To mark this occasion, a dinner and disco was held at The Stadium of Light, home of Sunderland Football... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FEBRUARY 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that German aeroplanes had dropped bombs and later that a vessel was reported to be firing red flares. At 3.50 the No. 1 motor life-boat...
Ben Haslett (r.), a Shoreline member and steward of Guildford Corporation Club, arranged a social evening for the RNLl last November. The resulting cheque for £210 was presented to Sydney Gillingham (/.), assistant district organising... - View image in PDF
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The Rev R F Rendell of Brightlingsea Preaching From The Life-Boat at Clacton-On-Sea. - View image in PDF
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The "John Russell" With The Duchess of York On Board In Montrose Dock. - View image in PDF
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A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
Category: Services
LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.
For whenever the storm with its...
Category: Poetry