LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gallant Life-Boat Men
We've songs in praise of men of fame, Of men who've fought and bled, Whose names still live in history, Though they themselves are dead.
But I'll not sing of heroes gone, My burthen now shall be Our gallant...
Category: Poetry
Portquin Bay Cornwall December 15 1979: Padstow Lifeboat the 48Ft 6In Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane Stands By the Greek Freighter Skopelos Sky In An Onshore Storm Gusting to H
Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (15)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned YORK The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
El Cid
SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Clovelly, Devon. At 2.15 a.m. on nth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a ship in distress had fired rockets north-west of Hartland Point. The lifeboat William Cantrell Ashley was launched in a moderate easterly...
Marie Flore
MAY 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At about midnight on the 4th May information was received from the Padstow coastguard that a convoy had been attacked from the air about ten miles N. by W. of Stepper Point, and that one of...
Above: the Curiously Named. Coastguard Tug. Far Turbot.
Above: The curiously named. - View image in PDF
Coastguard tug. Far Turbot.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annabel II
Capsized motor cruiser AT 1150 ON FEBRUARY 22, Skipper Tony Meyler, on board MFV Western Seas lying alongside in Aberystwyth Harbour, was told by Peter Kokelaar that the motor cruiser Annabel II had just capsized in heavy surf near the...
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Barrow, Lancashire.—6th December.
Red flares had been reported eleven miles N.W. of Walney Light, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £17 6*. 6d..