LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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On the 3rd June an alarm was given that there was a vessel ashore on Whitley Sands. At 4.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the vessel through a rough sea, the wind blowing a moderate breeze from N.E., and rescued her crew of...

On the llth March the sloop Barbara, of Hopeman, sprang a leak, and split her fore-staysail, in a heavy gale from the north. She accord- ingly ran for the sands to the eastward of Lossiemouth, when the life-boat of the In- stitution...

WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...

• Storms brought devastation to Margate during the winter of 1978, destroying its pier and wrecking the lifeboat station. However, as a result of the research which followed to replace the lost service boards of Margate's lifeboats,...

The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...

DUNDALK.—At 3 P.M. on the 16th April, during a strong gale at S.E., the Jane, of Whitehaven, and the Andromeda, of London, both schooners laden with coal, drove ashore on the Dundalk bar. The Lifeboat Stockport Sunday School was launched and...

THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...