LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DUNGENESS (LTDD).—The Life-boat B.A.O.S. was launched at 1.40 A.M., on the llth April, while a moderate gale was blowing from W., accompanied by a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the barque Oapella, of Bremen, which, while...

The Brix- ham Life-boat, Betsy Newton, rescued the crew of four men from the Plymouth ketch Vesta during a whole N.E. gale on 12th January. The Vesta lost one of her cables and drove perilously near the rocks. The crew were rescued just in...

— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...

NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the morning of the 7th November, while a whole gale was blowing from the N,, the dandy Ann and Elizabeth, of Cardigan, homeward bound in ballast, was seen drifting towards the beach. Efforts were made to save the...

DUNGENESS, KENT.—On the 6th April the Coastguard watchman informed the coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.E. that a large steamer had stranded on the Newcome Sand. He at once summoned the crew and at 6.15 p.m. the boat was launched. A strong...

SILLOTH.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 24th January, the Life-boat Angela and Hannah proceeded through a heavy gale at S.S.W.

to the assistance of the schooner Tweed, of Greenock. This vessel had struck on the north-west end of the...

CAISTEB.—On the 4th November the small Life-boat, the Godsend, was called off to the aid of the fishing-smack Phoebe, of Yarmouth, which had got on the " Cockle" Sand. On reaching the spot, her hull was already under water, and her...

MONTROSE.—On the 30th September, a boat containing three pilots put off from this place to a Norwegian barque, and one of the men was placed on board the vessel.

The boat then returned towards the shore, but the wind having...