LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Verbena
The Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Vulcan, were called out by guns from the Gall Light-vessel, and a flare on the Goodwin Sands at 8 P.M. on the 21st February, during a fresh breeze from the N. On Hearing the sands the Life-boat left the...
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 4th March the morning was comparatively fine, and all the boats started for the fishing-grounds at about 6 o'clock. At about 10, however, a gale from S.E. suddenly rose accompanied by a heavy sea, compelling them to abandontheir...
Beaconsfield
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The barque Beaconsfield, of Brammen, laden with teak from Rangoon for Greenock, via Falmouth, stranded on the ridge inside North Bock in a strong S.S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 9th April. She fired signals of...
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Life-boat Rescue from the Land.
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Lifeboat Station was situated at the end...
Rescue By An Honorary Secretary
ON the afternoon of 1st July, in a southerly gale with a very heavy sea, a small yacht, with its owner on board, ran ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance to the channel. Councillor C. E. Tatham, Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Branch...
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Lizzie Ellen
The Life-boat Lizzie Ellen was launched on the 12th January to the assistance of a vessel which was being towed into Mount's Bay with a distress signal flying. Before they reached the vessel she anchored, and the steamer which had been...
Gallilee, Empire and Silver Line.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 16th May, 1939, a strong N.E.
wind was blowing with a very rough sea.
About 10.15 it was learnt that two small fishing boats were returning. Thenjust as the motor...
Ferjo
STANDING BY A SWEDISH COAL SHIP Walton and Frinton, Essex.—-At 11.50 on the night of the 16th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the Sunk Lightship that a vessel was showing flares. A fresh west- south-west gale was...
The Guillemot
ENGINES STOPPED AND SAILS BLOWN AWAY Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—After four fish- ing boats had gone out in the morning of the 1st of May, 1947, a strong off- shore wind sprang up. All the boats were dragging their trawls before the wind when the...
The Danish Steamer Svanhild
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 16th February the coxswainreceived a message from the coastguard that a steamer with her engines broken down, about a mile north of the Longship lighthouse, wanted help. She was the Danish...