LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th December. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.j F.R.S., V.P.i in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes at the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees of the ROYAL...
Category: Committee
Marianna
.— On the 6th February, shortly after midday, the barque Marianna, of Arendal, in tow, was observed about one and a half miles off Port Patrick with a heavy list and not able to steer. There was a strong S.W. wind and heavy ...
Alfheim
On the afternoon of the 24th February a vessel was observed to run ashore close to Kings- down. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were assembled, and with the assistance of the haul-off warp the boat was launched, and proceeded to...
Othello
.—At about 7 P.M.
on 23rd February information was re- ceived from the Coastguard that the North Goodwin Lightship had reported that a flare or rocket had been seen in a south-westerly direction. The Motor Life-boat...
535
On the evening of the 7th October a pilot warned the coxswain that flares had been seen near No. 2 buoy, in the entrance to Wyre Channel. A fresh and increasing S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life- boat Sir...
A Small Boat (2)
On the 22nd March a small boat left the main- land for Ramsey Island with two men, a pig and a lamb on board. The boat got into difficulties when about half- way across Ramsey Sound, and, drift- ing with the tide, began to bump along the...
Rosyth
Early on the morn- ing of the 26th April the steamer Rosyth, of Dundee, bound from Goole to Bou- logne with a cargo of coal, ran on to the Goodwin Sands E. by N. of the Brake light-vessel. The coastguard reported her, and the motor life-boat...
Virginia
FISHING BOAT MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS Skegness, Lincolnshire.—The fishing- smack Virginia, of Boston, Lincoln- shire, with a crew of three, which had gone to sea on January 1st, 1947, had not returned. Aeroplanes searched for her and radar was...
Ski Queen
Hastings, Sussex.—At 9.25 P.M. on the 29th July the coastguard reported that a small motor boat, with two men on board, was in distress half a mile west of Fairlight look-out. A b'ght S.E.
breeze was blowing, with a...