ESCORT FOR POLISH VESSEL IN NEAR GALE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.7 on the morning of the 13th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a resident of Trearddur Bay had reported a small vessel burning red...
FEBRUARY Launches 38 Lives rescued 58 FEBRUARY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
The life-boat coxswain and others were at the life-boat station when, at 3.40 in the afternoon, they saw a Typhoon aeroplane, flying low, crash in the...
Category: Services
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the honorary secre- tary was informed by the manager of a film company that the trawler Madre Dolorosa had grounded on the west bank about a hundred...
Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...
Category: Correspondence
Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London tows the wreck of the 34ft yacht Robbery into Chichester Harbour after she had capsized and tost her keel. (Photograph Observer Series). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
Category: Articles
Working Together from page 93 You have only got to touch it with a rope, or something like that, and there is no problem.
Kennett: We just give them a flick as soon as they come down. That is good...
Category: Articles
How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.
And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...
Category: Poetry
Swimmers far out A COUNCIL LIFE GUARD at Sennen Cove, Nick Bryant, although not on duty was down painting his hut on Friday May 16 when he saw two swimmers a long way out to sea. He immediately put out on a surf board and, on reaching the...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...