LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck Chart for 1852
WITH the present Number of the Life- Boat Journal we present our readers with a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, showing all the casualties to shipping which occurred in the seas and on the shores of the United Kingdom in the year 1852,...
Category: Charts
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1880-81
As the revolving year comes round, the direful effects of storms and shipwrecks are vividly brought tinder our notice by the details of the Wreck Kegister recently issued under the auspices of the Board of Trade. From it we regret to observe...
Category: Articles
After the Wreck
ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.
Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...
Category: Poetry
'Wreck Raisers'
Mr. M. R. C. Parr, of Eycline Films Ltd., London, writes: 'The "Wreck Raisers", a film just completed for the Children's Film Foundation, features the friendly life-boat coxswain vho is also the magistrate as one of the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart: An Aspect of Sea Power
. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
Category: Articles
After the Opening Ceremony Honorary Secretary M Perrins Presented Coxswain/ Mechanic Frank Ide Second Coxswain John Clark and Other Members of Poole Crew to Th
After the opening ceremony, honorary secretary M. Perrins presented Coxswain/ Mechanic Frank Ide, Second Coxswain John Clark and other members of Poole crew to the Duke . . . who was then taken on an informal tour of the building by Major-... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1891
OF all the Blue Books printed year by year for " Her Majesty's Stationery Office," probably not one communicates such deeply interesting information as that to be found in the volume containing the elaborate Tables drawn up and...
Category: Articles