LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henry Morton of Sunderland
On the 10th December, at 8 P.M., the brig Henry Morton, of Sunderland, got on shore on the Sizewell Bank, there being a heavy surf on the bank at the time. The Institution's Thorpeness life-boat was launched, and went to the aid of her...
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The Minesweeper H.M.S. Wave
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.30 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Wave, a minesweeper, was driving ashore at Porthminster beach, St. Ives Bay, and that the coastguard shore life-saving team had...
Rose
MARGATE.—About 4.40 p.m., on the 21st March, a telegram was received from Lloyd's agent at Whitstable stating that a brigantine had stranded on the Red Sand and that her crew were apparently in jeopardy. A strong gale was blowing from...
The Record of 1927. A Year of Conspicuous Services
A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
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St Patrick, of Bangor
On the 26th January the smack St. Patrick, of Bangor, was observed flying signals of distress at anchor in Red Wharf Bay, the wind blowing a gale from S.S.W. The life-boat at Moelfre was immediately launched to her aid, and found that she...
Gladina
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...
Erminia
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.—-The barque Erminia was driven past Workington in a W.N.W. gale on the 2nd August. The master was ashore, and was unable to get back to the vessel. She ultimately struck upon the banks and carried away her rudder,...
Trio, of Guernsey
At 12.15 A.M. on the 2nd October information was re- ceived that a vessel was continually burning flares off Trevose Head, and appeared to be driving ashore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were at once summoned, and the boat,...
Boy Bryn
FISHING BOAT ADRIFT ALL NIGHT Khyl, Flintshire. At 10.38 on the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a call had been received for help from the motor fishing vessel Boy Bryn...