LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Clyde
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCAKDINESHIBK. A telephone message having been received from Gourdon, on the 25th January, intimating that a schooner was ashore at the Burn of Benholm, which is about a mile and a half eastward of Johnshaven, the Life-boat...
Magnificent
The westerly gale on the 18th February was one of the fiercest experienced at Stornoway for a long period, and the squalls at times attained hurricane force.
About 4.45 P.M. information was re- ceived that a fishing lugger,...
Mystery
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen high and dry on the Ganfleet Sand, just above the lighthouses flying signals of distress. The Albert Edward...
Vier Gebroeders
At 11 A.M. on the 12th April the Coastguard reported that a schooner in the Margate Roads was flying distress signals. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was at once summoned and the boat launched.
When she was...
A Fishing Boat
— At 11.35 P.M. on the 9th June, during a strong westerly gale, it was reported to the Coxswain, W. Cross, that a man had swum ashore from a fishing-boat and stated that four men aboard were in danger. The crew of the steam Life-boat Queen...
Catherine Latham
On the evening of the 13th February, Coxswain Robert Leece observed that a schooner, which had been lying in Douglas Outer Harbour for 'some days windbound, was flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched,...
James Postelthwaite
— The schooner James PostletJiwaite, of Barrow, whilst bound for Burton Port in ballast, stranded on the north side of Eighter Island, on the 15th June. Information reached Aranmore by telegram about 2.15P.M., and the Life-boat, La Totitam,...
Mauranger
At 4.30 A.M. on the 25th April the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to the assistance of a vessel apparently on the Cross Sand. On the arrival of the boat they found the vessel was the steamer North Gwalia, of London, laden -with...
Tony
On the morning of the 25th February the local motor fishing boat Tony put to sea, with the life-boat coxswain and two other men on board. Later in the day the weather turned rough, and the second coxswain made enquiries for the boat. The...
Overlord
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of Southampton, was in difficulties eight and a half miles south-west of...