LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
Gardar and Miguel de Larrinaga
MAY 21ST. -WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
The trawler Gardar, of Iceland, had been sunk in collision with the steamer Miguel de Larrinaga, but the latter picked up the majority of the Gardar’s crew, and the lifeboat found only...
Oregon, of Stonehaven
On the 7th April, the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven, ran ashore on the South Gare Sand. The Middlesborough life-boat was towed again to the river's mouth, whence she proceeded to the sunken vessel and rescued her crew, 4 in...
King Oscar
On the night of the 10th January the Norwegian barque King Oscar ran ashore on the rocks off Newbiggin Point. The Newbiggin life- boat put off, and succeeded, with some dif- ficulty, in getting on board the crew, 14 in number, and one woman,...
Wellington
On the evening of the 10th November a mounted messenger arrived, and reported that a vessel was riding at anchor in the bay outside the bar, and making signals for the Life-boat. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W at the time. The...
Marnhull
At 6 A.M. on the 10th February signals of distress were observed on the North end of the Barnard Sand. The wind at the time was blowing a strong breeze from the S,W. and the sea was rough. The No. 2 Life-boat, St. Michael's, Paddington,...
Haab
POKTMADOC, CARNARVONSHIRE. — At 8 A.M. on the 24th January, a vessel having been observed on the S. side of the bar during a strong W.N.W. wind, the John, Ashbury Life-boat put off, and with some difficulty got alongside the vessel, which...
Ephrussi
HARWICH AND ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been made by the light-vessels, the Springwell Life-boat stationed at Harwich and the Aldeburgh Life-boat at Aldeburgh were launched at 8 A.M. on the 5th June, and proceeded to the Shipwash Sands where...
Alice
During a moderate southerly gale on the 25th April the chief officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was in the West Bay dismasted and in need of help.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox were at once...
Helsingborg
The steamer Helsingborg, of Helsingborg, bound from Sweden to Blyth in ballast, stranded in the early morning of the 18th February on the rocks about a quarter of a mile to the south of Cress- well Coastguard Station. Information reached the...