LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunbeam
RAMSGATE.—In response to signals from the Gull Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid at 2.10 A.M., on the llth February, while a strong gale was blowing from S.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and...
Jessie
POOLE, DOHSET.—While a fresh wind was blowing from E.S.E. on the 5th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Sandbanks stating that a vessel was on the Hook Sand and burning flares. The Lifeboat City Masonic Club...
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Inga
On the 7th December, during a fearful gale of wind from W.S.W., the Edward Wasey life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore the crew of 12 men and a pilot from the Norwegian barque Inga, which was at anchor, in a dis- masted state, near...
Marguerite, Isabel and Rita
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 9.15 A.M. on the 24th February to the assistance of the cobles Marguerite and Isabel and Rita, which were overtaken by rough weather when to the north of the Brig. The E.S.E. wind caused the sea...
Hondeklip
On the 18th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the E.S.E.
with a rough sea, the brig Hondeklip, of Swansea, bound ftom Ghent for Dublin, was observed ashore on the north-east part of the Goodwin Sands. The...
Beech Holm
AYR.—While the barque Beech Holm, of Sunderland, bound from Ayr for Cape Town with a cargo of coal, was being towed out of the harbour on the evening of the 28th March, the tow-rope slipped from her, and before it could be recovered she...
Windermere
NEW EOMHET, KENT.—Distress signals having been shown by the barque Windermere, of Newcastle, bound from London for Eangoon, with a general cargo, during a moderate E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the 17th of January, the crew of the Sandal...
Ivylea
Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a man at East Burrafirth saw that a fishing boat had broken down in the Rona and asked the driver of a car to tell the life-boat station. The motorist de- livered the message at 9...
Regal
At 9.20 P.M. on the 3rd February signals of distress were heard from the Long- stone Lighthouse, and steps were immediately taken to launch the Life- boat Forster Fawsett. Owing to the state of the tide and the muddy nature of the shore very...