LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Result, of Guernsey
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guernsey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Sea Flower, of Castletownbere
Valentia Co. Kerry - At 1.15 a.m. on 22nd December, 1968, Valentia radio station told the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Sea Flower of Castletownbere was in distress in the Ardgroon harbour area. Maroonswere fired at 1.20. There was a...
The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen (2)
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
New Draper, of Whitehaven
On the 9th February, the brig New Draper, of Whitehaven, lost her sails in a heavy gale, and was driven ashore near Wicklow harbour. The life- boat stationed there was quickly launched, and succeeded in taking off her crew, 8 in number, and...
Services of Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
Category: Services
Fantee, of Hamburg
October 20th, at 5 P.M.
The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.
Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...
Jane, of North Shields
On the night of the 5th March, the brig Jane, of North Shields, stranded three miles and a quarter south of Palling, in a strong gale from S.S.W. The Palling life-boat was taken to the spot, on her transporting-carriage, and launched to her...
Gipsy King of Glasgow
— The schooner Gipsy King, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked during a heavy gale of wind on the Dulas Rocks, on the Anglesey coast, on the 17th October. At daybreak, during fearful weather, one of the crew was seen floating on a piece of...
Cybil, of Yarmouth
On the 30th September, the brigantine Sybil, of Yarmouth, was run into by another vessel, whi/st riding at anchor during a gate of wind in Scarborough Roads, and seriously damaged. The crew made signals of dis- tress and a coble went off;...
Coxswain Richards of Lynmouth
COXSWAIN GEOEGE STANLEY RICH- ARDS, who died on the 10th of January, 1954, at the age of 91, was a well-known personality in Lynmouth, and had been .coxswain of the Lyn- mouth life-boat from 1926 to 1931.
For forty years...
Category: Obituaries