LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the I 24th January the ketch Queen Victoria, of I Lynn, was wrecked near the entrance of Sunderland harbour, during a strong ! breeze at N.W. That vessel had come to an anchor while on a voyage from Lynn...

At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...

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THE YEAR OF 1891 was one well remembered for the terrible storms that caused many lives to be lost in the Channel. The Romney Marsh coast was no exception. On March 9, 1891, in a severe gale the Coastguard, with local folk, were called to a...

On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.

That night nine Life-boats...

On the 22nd Oct., in consequence of a telegram from Broadstairs, this invaluable boat proceeded in tow of the harbour steamer to the Kentish Knock Lightship, twenty-six miles from Ramsgate, which was reached an hour before midnight. Hailing...

HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—Very heavy '.

seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...

I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.