LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clyde and Harbinger
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
Village Maid, of Fleetwood
On the 10th Feb- ruary, at daylight, a vessel was observed to have sunk on the Dutchman's Bank, and the crew to be clinging to the rigging. The Penmon life-boat was accordingly launched through a high surf, and proceeded .to their aid....
Lily, of Wexford
On the 20th February last, the Wexford small life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the smack Lily, of Wexford, which had struck on the Dogger Bank. It was blowing strong from N.N.E. at the time, with a heavy sea on. On...
Fredrick
CAMBOIS, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 22nd March, while a strong gale was blowing from X., accompanied by a very heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat Otteald, Sarah and Jane saw a vessel strand on the South Bank at the...
A Motor Launch and Tehtar and Essex Pride
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex- At 11.26 a.m.
on 27th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch appeared to be in trouble.
There was a strong gale from the west south...
Grietje
THREE LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL Port Erin, Port St. Mary, and Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.15 on the morning of the 5th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Port St. Mary life-boat station that a vessel...
Rose
MARGATE.—About 4.40 p.m., on the 21st March, a telegram was received from Lloyd's agent at Whitstable stating that a brigantine had stranded on the Red Sand and that her crew were apparently in jeopardy. A strong gale was blowing from...
Viola
On the 31st October the steam drifter Viola, of Banff, ran ashore on Scroby Sands when returning to Yarmouth from the fishing grounds.
An increasing N.N.E. wind was blow- ing and the sea was heavy on the sands.
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Life-Boat Photographs. At York, Bradford, Sunderland and Leeds
THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which has already been shown in London, Edinburgh and Birmingham has, during the latter part of the year, been on a tour of the North-East of England, and has been shown at York, Bradford, Sunderland...
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Duchess, a Schooner, Julia, Cornucopia, et al (1)
At 12.30 A.M. on the 7th November the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the Kentish Knock Sand, the master of a fishingsmack having reported that there was a vessel ashore there. The wind was blowing moderately...