LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taking Shipwrecked Persons from a Wreck, and Their Stowage In a Life-Boat
As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...
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Lyra
HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.
and a heavy sea. The boat...
Fiducia
At 5.20 P.M.
on the 19th February, a schooner was observed aground on the Bell Buoy shoal. There was a moderate southerly gale at the time and the sea was heavy.
The Life-boat John Burch was therefore...
Florence
At about 8.55 A.M. on 3rd January a message was received from the Coastguard that a ketch, with a distress signal flying, was dragging her anchors near No. 1 Black Buoy, and was in danger of stranding on the Causeway off Puffin Island. The...
Brethren and Gratitude
The fishing fleet put to sea early on the morning of the 7th April. Later the sea got up, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 11.25 A.M., to the help of three small motor cobles which had not...
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...
Yacht Alethea II
At 8.10 P.M. on the 30th August the coast- guard at Totland telephoned that a small yacht was burning red flares near Elbow Buoy. A fresh S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat...
Morn
Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
Salvor
Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 12th February, 1938, the motor boat Salvor, of Ramsgate, with a crew of three, had gone out to the North Goodwin Lightvessel, to bring ashore a Trinity House mechanic. She left the light-vessel about 5 P.M., and as...
The S.S. Regency Belle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.14 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1953, during fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel was making signals on her siren south-east of Whitby Rock Buoy. At 12.29 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth...