LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860
FOE the past nine years we have periodically called public attention to the Annual Official Register of Shipwrecks on the Coast and in the Seas of the United Kingdom, presented by the Board of Trade to Parliament.
It is...
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150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace Darling In Context By Georgette Purches Assistant Public Relations Officer
Is there in the field of history, or of fiction even, one instance of female heroism to compare for one moment, with this? wrote The Times in 1838.
The event to which the leading article in the newspaper referred was the...
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Mystery wreck
1 November 2011: A fouled net is quite a common problem for fishermen around our coasts, but the crew of the trawler Sally-Jane were shocked to find that their nets had snagged on a wrecked yacht. Fearing for the...
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Wreck of the Same Vessel, Next Day
Wreck of the Same Vessel Next Day. - View image in PDF
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1865
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1884-85
No Wreck Register having been issued this autumn by the BOARD OF TRADE, we are unable, as has been our wont for upwards of thirty years, to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, with a Chart showing the wrecks and...
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The Wreck of Two Welsh Trawlers. Six Awards for Gallant Service
IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...
Category: Awards
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893
WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...
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A Wreck on the Cornish Coast
WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...
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A Dramatic View of Three Sisters Seconds Before She Sank. Crew Member Frank Home's White Helmet Can Be See In the Centre of the Group In the Sea As the Navy Inflatable Closes I
A dramatic view of Three Sisters seconds before she sank. Crew member Frank Home's white helmet can be see in the centre of the group in the sea as the Navy inflatable closes in to pick them up. Photo RAF Valley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs