LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Constance
OCTOBER 17TH. - HOYLAKE , CHESHIRE. During the evening the lifeboat telephone messenger saw flares in the Hilbre Swash, bearing approximately 300° from the life-boat house, and reported them to the coastguard. Then, at 7.32 P.M., the...
Sensitive
At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 19th intelligence reached the station of a vessel being on the north end of the Arklow Bank. It was then blowing a moderate gale from the S.E. with very high sea. The Life-boat Out-Pensioner was...
Gateforth
PORT LOGAN, N.B.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 31st January, during a strong S.E. gale, the galliot Gateforth, of Whithorn, bound from Ayr to Whithorn with coal, was atanchor in the bay, and showed a signal for assistance. An open boat, with the...
Fishing Boats (4)
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
The S.S. Orkla
During a very thick fog on the 5th January a message was received from the Cross Light-vessel by wireless telegraphy stating a steamer was ashore on the sand. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were assembled and the boat launched...
William and Alice
The schooner William and Alice, of Hull, whilst bound from that port to Grays with a cargo j of coal, stranded on the Cockle Sand on I the 31st August. The crew of the No.
; 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy were assembled and the...
Scadaun
— On the morning of the 5th August the Lo westof t steam drifter Scadaun was returning to port during a thick fog when she struck a submerged rock outside Castlebay harbour. The motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 11.30 A.M. in...
Carol Singing
LAST Christmas eleven branches arranged carol-singing parties. The majority were again in the South-East of England. Sussex had parties at East Grinstead, Bognor Regis and Cuckfield; Surrey at Dorking and Leatherhead; Kent at Westerham, and...
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Maid of Erin
On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...
Harvest Queen
Boulmer, Northumberland.—Very early on the morning of the 17th February the steamer Harvest Queen, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, ran aground at Boulmer Steel. She carried a crew of five, and was bound from Seaham Harbour for Wick with a cargo of...