LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...

About 5 A.M., on the 24th November, the barque Sea Serpent, of South Shields, was observed ashore op- posite the Wellington Pier, the wind blow- ing a gale from the E. at the time. The Yarmouth small surf life-boat was im- mediately launched...

CAISTER.—On the evening of the 23rd December flares were seen from a vessel ashore on the Barber Sand. The Godsend Life-boat was immediately launched, and on arriving at the sand the barque Ingleborough, of Hull, was found to have gone...

MONTBOSE.— The smack London, of Jersey, was in great danger at 1.30 P.M.

on the 18th March, having steered too far north while making for Montrose. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, having been launched, took up a position...

NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIBE.—Signals of distress having been seen from a vessel stranded on the North Sands during a moderate S.W. wind and a choppy sea, on the 27th January, the crew of the Lifeboat 'Alexander Charles and William Aird were...

On the 22nd August a whole gale of wind blew from the N.E., the sea was very heavy, and^as risk would be incurred by the fishing craft in returning to port, the Life-boat was launched at 4.30 A.M. At 5 o'clock the lugger Advance capsized...

ANSTRUTHER.—On the 17th February a strong gale from the S.E. raged in the Firth of Forth and a very heavy sea was running. Fifty of the fishing-boats and seven steamers were then at sea, and, in order to inspire confidence in their crews in...

FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAT.—Guns were fired at Llanstephan during a gale from the S.W. and a heavy surf with thick rain on the 7tb. July, and a signal of distress was afterwards shown by the smack W. S. Treherne. The Life-boat City of...