LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dunmail, of Liverpool
On the 10th Aug. the tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur, in a strong wind and heavy sea, saved 10 men from the ship Dunmail, of Liverpool, I which was wrecked on the Bar of the ' Mersey..
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The Humber, Yorkshire. — 23rd October, 1939. A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosion had been heard, but nothing could be found and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel's crew had been rescued by...
The End of Hms Foudroyant
The end of HMS Foudroyant, one of Nelson's flagships which in her last years was used as a training ship for boys. White anchored off Blackpool on June 16, 1897, a gale blew up and she dragged aground. The lifeboat Samuel Fletcher of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two French Crab Fishing Boats
AUGUST 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Two French crab-fishing boats had been reported missing from St. Ives Bay, but nothing was found. One had made harbour and the other had been totally wrecked, with the loss of three of...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
A Drifter Attached to H.M.S. King George V
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.30 on the night of the 29th of March, 1949, the coastguard reported that a drifter, attached to H.M.S. King George V, had gone ashore on Mixen Reef about a hundred yards from the pier while carrying about seventy-five...
Thor
FISHING BOAT TOWED AFTER ENGINE FAILS Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 2.4 on the morning of the 10th October, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the motor mechanic, in the absence of the honorary secretary, a message from the fishery cruiser...
Craigievar
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 4.12 on the morning of the 25th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three red flares had been seen off Fort Castle Head, three miles west of St. Abbs Head. The life-boat Clara and...
An Aeroplane (23)
OCT. 14TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the Shambles Lightship had fired guns and rockets. A strong E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. At 10 P.M.
the motor...
British Inventor
JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was...