LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arrow, of Derbyhaven
OCTOBER 27TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 3.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal south-east of Scarlett Point. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...
Sirenia (1)
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
His Last Message.
To each of the three annual meetings of the Institution since the outbreak of war The Duke of Kent sent a message of congratulation. The last of these messages was read by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, when he...
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Oil on Troubled Waters
It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...
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Beryl
At 6 P.M. on the 22nd December a barge, the Beryl, of Faversham, showed flares for a pilot, but in the prevailing gale it was not safe for ;a pilot to proceed to her. As the weather was very bad, and had every appearance of becoming worse,...
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Empire Alfred and Yardcraft 345
DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...
Regian
r, NOBTHITHBKBIIAND. — Oa the 4th November at 6 P.M. the assistant coxswain of the Life-boat saw the lights of a steamer upon the rocks at Hadstone, The crew of the Algernon and Eleanor Life-boat were at once summoned, horses were obtained,...
Clarissa, of Bideford
JUNE 20TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A message was received from the police that a vessel was flashing a lamp in Conway Bay. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea choppy. At eleven o’clock the motor life-boat...
A Pilot Boat
At about 6 P.M., on the 12th March, two men put off in a pilot boat to pull a line set at sea. It was too dark to find it and they tried to get into harbour again, and twice were driven back, the boat shipping heavy seas. The third time they...