LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Providence, of Shields
On the 10th February, in the fearful gale from the east which caused stteh destruction to shipping and terrible loss of life on our east coast, the brig Providence, of Shields, coal laden, was driven on the Long Scarr Rocksj between the...
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St. Mary's, Ides of Scilly.—On the night of the 24th February two doctors, who are members of the local committee, told the honorary secretary that they had examined a serious appendicitis case, and had decided that the man must be got...
Pluto
Margate, Kent.—At 4.56 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that he had seen a cabin cruiser two miles to the eastward and that one of her crew was waving a shirt. At 5.2 the life- boat North Foreland...
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
Sister Pat
FEB. 17TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 A.M. the motor boat Sister Pat, belonging to Fleetwood, with two men on board, was seen by the second cox-swain of the life-boat to be making distress signals. She was being driven...
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8th October. Red rockets had been seen, but a thorough search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £28 19*..
The Hurricane at Calcutta
DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...
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Alert and Hester
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 12th November, at about 8 A.M., signals of distress were seen to be shown by a schooner at anchor in the Bay during a very strong N. gale.
The Life-boat -Lady Leigh was immediately launched and proceeded...
Royal Firth
On 20th September the Royal Firth, of Glasgow, a steamer of about 400 tons, struck the Mahon Rock near the Tuskar Lighthouse, while bound from Blyth to Eosslare laden with coals.
Shortly after 6 P.M. the vessel was seen...