LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mystic, of Newport
On the 2nd Jan., 1873, the Princess of Wales Life-boat at this station, in answer to signals of distress, proceeded to the brig Mystic, of Newport, which she leached shortly before midnight.
Previous efforts had been made...
Lizzie Bovill, of Newcastle
On the 21st January, at 10 P.M., in a fresh northerly wind and heavy sea, a vessel, which proved to be the barque Lizzie Bovill, of Newcastle, was seen at anchor near the shore in the neighbour- hood of Palling, and burning signals of...
Pioneer
KESSINGIASTB. — At 4 P.M., on the 7th February, signals of distress were observed.
from the fishing smack Pioneer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded in J?akefieM Gat.
The So. 1 Life-boat, the Botton, was...
Enigma
On the afternoon of the 6th March, at about 5 o'clock, a schooner was observed coming from the W. and making for Serabster Boads. As the sea was very heavy, and the wind was blowing strongly from the N., fears were entertained that she...
Sarnian Gem
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At noon on the 30th Jannary the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden put off to the assistance of the schooner Sarnian Gem, of Guernsey, bound from Guernsey to London with stone, she having apparently lost all her sails. The...
Silver Medal for a Shore-Boat Case
ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...
Category: Medals
Arthur Wyatt
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat John Bnrch was launched in the afternoon of the 9th March to the assistance of the schooner Arthur Wyatt, of Beaumaris,Beaumaris, which was seen to run aground on the Scroby Sand while bound from Hull to...
Fishing Cobles
In a mode- rate westerly breeze with a growing sea on the evening of the 2nd September, the services of the Life-boat were called for to assist two of the fishing cobles belonging to Staithes. A telegram from Staithes stated that the boats...
A Coble
At 3.15 A.M.
on the morning of the 5th June a coble was seen off the station unable to come in on account of the heavy sea running, and as other boats belonging to the fleet had gone to sea during the night, it was...
Fishing Boats (1)
As two fishing-boats belonging to the port I had not returned from fishing, and the wind was blowing hard with a very rough sea on the 24th December, the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched shortly after noon, in order to be in |...