LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1857
THE extensive and increasing commerce of the United Kingdom renders unfortunately shipwrecks on its shores a matter of daily occurrence. Indeed, their frequency is so great, that in the aggregate the public at large fail to realise the...
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Royal Archer, of Leith
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Soon after 8 P.M. on the 12th June messages were received from the coastguard and the Royal Naval Signal Station that a steamer with 120 passengers on board had been beached one mile west of South Shoebury buoy,...
T. H. Burton
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.2 P.M.
on the 30th November a telephone message was received from the dockmaster, Salisbury Dock, Liverpool, that a motor barge, and three dumb barges in tow, were aground off the North...
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
A Large Vessel
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—2nd July. A large vessel was reported to have foundered after blowing her siren.
Visibility was poor and actually the vessel had disappeared into the fog.—• Rewards £5 12s..
A Parachute (1)
MAY 14TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. A parachute had been reported down in the sea, but it was washed ashore before the life-boat could reach it. A meteorological balloon was attached to it. - Rewards, £7 12s..
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MARCH 5TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An explosion had occurred five miles east of Cresswell, and the lights of a ship had disappeared, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £22 12s..
An Aeroplane (100)
AUGUST 23RD. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and two men were said to have baled out from it, but nothing could be found of them. - Rewards, £6 12s..
A Tug
NOVEMBER 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
The life-boat crew were standing by at the life-boat house during an air-raid alert, and saw a tug blow up. They launched at once, but found nothing but wreckage. - Rewards, £7...
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JANUARY 11TH. - PEEL, AND PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Amber-coloured rockets had been seen and the Peel life-boat went out. Later a red flare was seen in the direction of the life-boat and the Port Erin life-boat put out, but nothing was found.-...