LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swallow, of Runcorn
During the night of the 10th October, the 'Sisters' Memorial Life-boat, in answer to signals of distress from the flat Swallow, ol Bun corn, was launched, and brought on shore from that vessel the crew, 3 in number. The Swallow had...
Gladys
At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she had taken the...
H.M. Submarine Universal (3)
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
Jules Josephine, of Reyneville
On the 22nd August, the French smack Jules Josephine, of Reyneville, was totally wrecked on the Doom Bar Sands. It was blowing a heavy gale from W.N.W. at the time. The City of Bristol life-boat, Albert Edward, so named after H.K.H. the...
John and Mary
Signals having been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel, and flares having been shown in the direction of the South Scroby Sand at about 1.45 A.M. on the 18th of March, the No. 1 Life-boat, Mark Lane, put off during a fresh E. by S. wind...
A Skiff
On the 21st Nov. the Life- boat S. T. Garden, of this station, saved 2 men, who, in their skiff, were being driven by the force of the wind among the breakers, where they would certainly have been lost but for the timely arrival of the...
Cavalier
LOSSIEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 27th April, at 4. A.M., the Life-boat Bristol and Clifton put off, and rescued five men from the schooner Cavalier, of Lossiemouth, which had been driven ashore about fifty yards eastward of the old harbour. The wind...
Jess
On the night of the 21st October the yacht Jess broke away from her moorings and after drifting about the harbour, to the danger of other shipping, drove up against the quay. The Motor Life- boat C.D.E.C. put out and towed her to a safe...
Angloman (1)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Henrik Wergeland
During a moderate S.S.W. gale and rough sea on the llth December, a message was received, stating that the Roaring Middle Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The Life-boat Licensed Vic- tualler was launched without loss of time and...