AUGUST 5TH - 6TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.28 at night the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities requested the services of the life-boat for a vessel reported sinking. A south-east wind was blowing,...
FEBRUARY 8TH . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 5 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that S.S. Thala, of London, was ashore on the S.E. corner of the Island of South Uist. She was a vessel of 4,399 tons, laden, and bound...
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.40 in the evening the Tara coastguard reported a steamer on the Long Rock, at South Rock, and the motor lifeboat Herbert John was launched at 7.8 P.M.
The coxswain was asked to...
On the 9th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.S.W., the s.s. Resolven, of Cardiff, 1,032 tons register, bound from North Shields for Lisbon with coal, stranded on the Barber Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp proceeded to her,...
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—On Saturday the 29th April a fearful gale was experienced here. The wind, which was from N.W., blew from about 11 until 3 o'clock in the afternoon with tremendous fury, lashing the sea into foam, and causing the spray...
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...
Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
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As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service before the public every day of the year, and we hope that...
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PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat Charlotte was launched at 8.15 P.M.
on the 30th January in a heavy sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E.
and the weather bitterly cold, a large vessel having...