LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Corea, of Guernsey
About 4 p.m. on the 19th April, the barque Corea, of Guernsey, was observed on Taylor's Bank in Liverpool Bay, the wind being from the S.W. and weather squally.
The New Brighton (tubular) life-boat was quickly launched...
Lock Garve
Immediately after returning from another call on the night of the 1st November the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was dispatched to the assistance of another vessel which was in distress on the south part of the Brake Sands. A...
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
Seven Men Rescued from Sinking Lightvessel
AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.
Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...
Category: Services
Theresa and Wladiener
CAISTER.—On the 28th March, a vessel was seen by her lights to be approaching the Barber Sand, and to lay fast on it about 7.45 P.M., when flares were burned immediately on board her. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat was forthwith launched, and...
Koningin Emma
On the 22nd Septem- ber, in response to a telephone message from Walton-on-the-Naze reporting that a large steamer was apparently ashore, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow put to sea. She spoke a trawler on her way out which reported that...
Frederick Carel
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...
William Hill
On the following day the same Lifeboat went, in a heavy sea, to the assistance of the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, which had shown signals of distress while lying in the bay about two miles from the shore. It was found that the...
Wellesley
The fishing smack Wellesley, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour at dead low-water, during a gale of wind from the S.E. and a heavy sea, at 7.30 P.M., on the 19th March, took the ground outside the pier and drove on to the beach.<...
Clipper of Great Yarmouth
On the night of the 24th January, dating a heavy gale from S.S.W., guns were heard from the St.
Nicholas Light Vessel, and rockets were thrown up, indicating a vessel in distress.
The crew of the large...