LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stralsund
On the 9th De- j cember, at 11 P.M., the ship Stralsund, of Stralsund, was driven on a ledge of rocks east of Kimeridge. A heavy storm and dark night did not prevent the crew of the Mary Heape Life-boat, which is one of the smallest on the...
Richard Willson
On the 15th February, during a fresh E. breeze, the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid proceeded out, in reply to signals from lightships, and found the ketch Richard Willson, of London, bound from Goole to Exmouth with coal, ashore on the...
Fishing Boats
ABBBOATH.—At about 11 o'clock, on the morning of the 10th October, the attention of the coxswain of the Life-boat was drawn to the dangerous position of two amateur fishing boats outside the harbour bar. The wind was blowing a strong...
Chanticleer
GORLESTON.—The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th May and proceeded to the assistance of the steam trawler Chanticleer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the South Scroby Sand, on which a rough sea was...
Sabine
The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...
Queen
Shortly after 5 A.M. on 24th November a vessel was observed in the bay in dangerous prox- imity to the shore. The crew of the Life-boat Marianne L. Say were sum- moned and the boat launched. The wreck was reached at 6.30 A.M. and proved to...
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...