LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wrecked!
SHE put to sea on Christmas Eve, And through their tears they saw her leave, And in that happy time of peace The strife of waters well might cease; Bat far away across the foam The sailor found another home.
No more, no...
Category: Poetry
Start, of Brixham
On the 4th Jan- uary, 1869, the trawler Start, of Brixham, was observed trying to beat to windward to obtain the shelter of Babbicombe Bay, a gale blowing at the time from the S.W., with a considerable sea. Just then she lost her mast in a...
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.
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
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past two years, the Institution has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides having...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past three years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...
Category: Articles
The Greek Brig Calamidas
On the follow- ing day, the Greek brig Calamidas was in a very perilous position in Newquay Bay, during a strong N.N.W. gale, accompanied by a very heavy sea. The Coast Guard attended with the rocket apparatus, but the ship was too distant...
Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla, at Whitby, 30th October, 1914
Eighty-five lives were saved by the Institution's Life-boats (see p. 274.) IN Rending a collection of ,67 5s.—from herself and from Surgeon-Captain Lonias, who was senior medical officer on the Roliilla, and was one of those saved, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Sharp End
The Lifeboat C class inflatable Operational Number C518 The Crew Thanks on Vellum: Helmsman Jeremy Thomas Crew Member Leonard Walters Lifeguard Simon Jury Vellum Service Certificates Andrew Walters Michael FaulknerC classjj-Iu_cksjthreejto...
Category: Services
The Wreck of the "Indian Chief," 5th January, 1881. The Aldeburgh Life-Boat's Journey of 120 Miles.
IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...
Category: Articles
French Assistance to British Wrecks
HER MAJESTY'S Consul at Boulogne has addressed a letter to the Earl of Clarendon, relative to the services rendered by Generals de Courtigis and Borelli, and their troops, to British vessels recently wrecked near that port. Four British...
Category: Articles