LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sidney Smith
.—-The Schooner Sidney Smith, of Portmadoc, whilst bound from Spain to Bristol with a cargo of iron ore, stranded at the mouth of Bantham Harbour, in foggy weather, early in the morning of the 25th March. Information of the disaster was...
Bratland
The steamer JBratland, of Porsgrund, a large steamer of 2,300 tons, stranded on the Cross Sand whilst bound to Grimsby in ballast, on the 3rd May. Information reached Coxswain S. Harris shortly after 9.30 P.M. that the Light-vessels were...
Robert Morris
The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched at 3 A.M.
on the 31st December, during an easterly gale, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the northward of Deal. The Life-boat was success- fully launched in a very...
Alanna
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.50 on the 29th of June, 1953, the Walton- on-the-Xaze coastguard rang up to say that the German steamer Dorte, of Stade. had taken in tow a yacht which had been in difficulties on the North East Gunfleet Sands...
Apollo
Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.58 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to stand by the many small boats which had put off to welcome the return of H.M. the Queen from the...
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Stromness, Orkneys. At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the body of a lighthouse keeper, who had been missing for over a week from Sule-Skerry, had been found south of Dunas...
Ann Wilmot
On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.
Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, i960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at the north end of Ballard Down near Old Harry Rocks. Police and...
Austility
LOADED WITH PETROL St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.10 p.m. on gth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the owners of the motor vessel Austility, of London, laden with petrol, had broken down and was dragging her...
Larissa
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M.
on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel...