LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Alacrity
COLLIER AGROUND IN THICK FOG Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 12.6 pjn.
on Friday the 13th September, 1963, the St. Just coastguard reported that a vessel was aground at Portheras Cove and the services of the life-boat might be...
The Life-Boat's Crew
Adapted by THOMAS GBAY (1868), from the " Heart of Oak," by DAVID GAEEICK (1759). if-uar- — — . -j. 7 - -m-'-m- res ! see ! they are off, though dear friends bid them stay, 5rave boat, 'neath their still braver hearts...
Category: Songs
An Irish Lights Steamer
DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...
The American Steamer Bessemer City, of New York
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At midnight on the lst-2nd November the coastguard reported a vessel ashore west of St.
Ives. She was the American steamer Bessemer City, of New York, bound from Liverpool for London with a general cargo...
From the Director
I was very pleased to include a message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT last year, and I am delighted to do so again.
I mentioned last year various developments in lifeboat design which were being undertaken, and it is...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Three Brothers
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 5.55 in the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948. a Skinningrove fisherman telephoned that a fishing coble had anchored off Skinningrove with her engine broken down and the motor life-boat Bobert Patton — The Always...
An Aeroplane (3)
FEBRUARY 3RD. - ALDEBURGH , SUFFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down off Aldeburgh, but it was found to be much further north and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £43 11s.
Fl Lt J a Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of Rai- Brawdy Were Awarded the 1978 L G Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for Their Invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'
Fl Lt J. A. Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of RAI- Brawdy were awarded the 1978 L. G.
Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for their invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'. This instrument will enable ships to home on to any... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1898
WE have much pleasure in drawing the special attention of our readers to the valuable statistics recently issued by the Board of Trade in their Annual Blue Book, which furnishes abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping...
Category: Articles
The Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1889
NOT the least important work dene by the Legislature during this year's session has been the passing of an Act to amend the " Eemoval of Wrecks Act, 1877." Prior to this Act becoming law no provision existed for the removal of...
Category: Articles