LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At midnight on the 18th December large flares were seen in the direction of the Barber Sand. A yawl went out and sailed to the sand, but meanwhile, as the flares continued to burn and the Cockle lightship fired guns and rockets, the Lifeboat...

The Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, put off at 4.35 A.M. on the 4th February, signals of distress having been observed by the watchmen during a strong breeze from the N.W. On reaching the Middle Cross Sand, on which a heavy sea was...

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A signal of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaamaris, boned from Port Dinorwic for Kamsey, Isle of Man, with a cargo of slate, which was at anchor in Moelfre roadstead, on the 28th March,...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th March, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Countess of Caithness', of Gloucester, bound from Limerick to Port William, N.B., with a cargo of bones....

DUNGARVAN.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 1st November the Life-boat William Dunville was launched in response to signals ofistress which were shown from the S.B.

flanmire, of Cork, with a general cargo, crew of twenty-four men, and...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—A message by telephone was received on the 14th August, reporting that a large barque was aground on the Hasborough Sand. The Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 8.15 a.m., and found the barque Helena Mena, of London,...

HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—A vessel was observed by the Coastguard to be stranded on the East Hoyle Spit on the morning of the 6th March, and as the weather appeared to be somewhat threatening, and there being a nasty sea on the bank, it was decided...

HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The three-masted schooner Caroline, of Padstow, bound from Hayle for Cardiff with sand, while being towed out of the harbour, in a j moderate W.N.W. breeze and a very heavy ground sea, on the 23rd January, stranded on the...