LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th February a messenger from Perran Zabuloe arrived at Newquay with intelligence that a vessel was at anchor, in a very, dangerous position, near Hoblyn's Cove, east of Perran...

— On the 20th February, the schooners Albion, of Teignmouth, and Emma, of Barrow, an- chored in Fishguard Bay. Being strangers, the vessels came to anchor rather too far out in the bay, and the wind having suddenly shifted to the N.N.E., and...

BALLYCOTTON,CO. CORK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Ballycotton, making for Cork harbour, closehauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On the...

CABDIGAK.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th September, the smack Ellen, of and from Milford, for Cardigan, with a cargo of limestones, anchored in Cardigan Bay, during a heavy gale from the N. W. by W.

and a high sea. She was...

COVBBACK, CORNWALL.—The first service at this Life-boat station, which was established in the year 1901, was performed on the 13th January last. The barque Glenbervie, of Glasgow, bound from London for Algoa Bay, with a general cargo,...

SEAHAM, DURHAM.—A reef of rocks about one mile to the south of Seaham Harbour was, on the 18th February,the scene of a shipping disaster which would have probably caused the loss of twelve lives had it not been for the valuable aid rendered...

FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with sleet, squally weather and a heavy sea, on the 3rd March the Coastguard watchman reported a schooner about five or six miles out, bearing N.N.W. from the look-out house, in...

Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...