LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Velocity of Sunderland
On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...
Trawlers
At about 3 P.M. on the 21st March, during a gale from the S.S.W., a number of the big trawlers belonging to Penzance, which had been at anchor off Newlyn, ran for Penzance Harbour for shelter. Several of the steam drifters also started to...
Marquis
The Oaister No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched at 1 A.M. on the 29th September to the aid of the schooner Marquis, of Anglesea, which had stranded on the north end of the Barber Sand, during a strong wind from the S.S.W. With the...
Books
Books . . .
• Every now and again a book is added to the lifeboat library which can be recognised at once as a 'classic'. Such is A Source Book of Lifeboats by Ray Kipling (Ward Lock, £3.50). Few people can...
Category: Articles
HMS. Cam
OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2. The Cam had no steam and the...
Miriam Thomas
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 9th January the collier Miriam Thomas, of Liverpool, broke from her moorings during a whole S.S.W. gale, with a rough sea, and drifted broadside on towards a dangerous lee. shore. At 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Emma Louise
During a thick sea fog on the 14th May a message was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was ashore about half a mile to the west of Beachy Head. The wind was blowing strongly from W.S.W. and the sea was...
Fishing Boats
.— On the 29th November a strong S.S.E. breeze sprang up, bringing with it a very heavy sea.
At the time seven of the fishing boats belonging to Montrose were at sea, and the thirty men forming their crews were in jeopardy....
Magdalina
LOSSIKMOUTH, SCOTLAND.—The schooner Magdalina, of Inverness, bound from Sunderland to Dingwall with coal, was struck by a sudden squall off Burgh Head on the 25th October. Her sails were carried away, and she came into Lossiemouth bay and...
St.Mary's Arun Robert Edgar Heads Out to Sea With the Survivor from Bacarole. More Photos Page 125.
St Mary's Arun Robert Edgar heads out to sea with the survivor from Bacarole. More photos page 125.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs