LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1873-4
lisions.—It appears then, that the number of wrecks, casualties, and collisions from all causes on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas, reported during the year 1873-4, was 1,803, being 401 less than the...
Category: Charts
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
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...
Category: Articles
Wreck and Rescue In the Bristol Channel
Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.
Of the life-boat stations detailed in...
Category: Articles
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER,...
Category: Articles
The Coaster Heye P Her Wheelhouse Swept Away a Total Wreck on Sea Gull Rock Prawle Point Photograph By Courtesy of W Budget!
The coaster Heye P, her wheelhouse swept away, a total wreck on Sea Gull Rock, Prawle Point. photograph by courtesy of W. Budget!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck of the Fishing Vessel Gang Warily
The wreck of the fishing vessel Gang Warily pictured from the cliff top two days after incident - when the weather had moderated considerably.
The difficulties of carrying out a rescue in an onshore Force 7 wind with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some of Plymouth's Present Crew: (Left to Right) Coxswain John Dare Frank Jago Motor Mechanic Cyril Alcock John Sheldon and Pat Marshall Photograph By Courte
Some of Plymouth's present crew: (left to right) Coxswain John Dare, Frank Jago, Motor Mechanic Cyril Alcock, John Sheldon and Pat Marshall. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of The Scout Association. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs