LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Wreck at Sea
" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1885
THE abstracts from the Wreck Register for the year ended the 30th June 1885, which, owing to circumstances, were not published by the Board of Trade in 1886, have now been issued, and are full of interesting matter. We propose, in ac-...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1864
IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...
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St.Ives Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall
St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall, returning at 0700 on October 17, 1980 from escorting the French trawler Floralie in gale force winds. A big breaking wave can just be seen coming up astern. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of the Training-Ship "Eurydice."
IT is the peaceful Sabbath-tide ; The sacred words have scarcely died That asked a guardian angel's hand For wand'rers over sea and land; Across the dancing waters bright A gallant vessel greets the sight, With every sunlit canvas...
Category: Poetry
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A FULL account appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat of the wreck of the yacht Islander, with the loss of six lives, and of the gallant efforts made from the shore by several men to rescue the crew when the vacht was almost on the rocks...
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Wreck of the S.S. "Veronese."
IT was with signal pleasure that all friends of the Life-boat cause heard of the gallant and successful efforts made by the brave fishermen and boatmen of the Portuguese Life-boat Society in rescuing 200 persons from the ill-fated S.S....
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1881-82
YEAR after year the Board of Trade publishes a register of the wrecks occur- ring on the rocky and dangerotis shores of the British Isles. This register silently places before us, in carefully arranged tables, a terrible tale of disaster and...
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Master Frank
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 5.41 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1966, the Master Frank was seen flying a distress signal. She was due in harbour at 3 o'clock. At 6.14 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched into a moderate east...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1865
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
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