LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Excel
The Life-boat Four Sisters pro- ceeded through a heavy westerly gale to the Eaxel, a schooner belonging to Mil- ford, which, on the 9th December, was wrecked neat the Owers Lightship. A heavy surf raged along the beach, and a long struggle...
Eliza Emma
The brig Eliza Emma, of Shoreham.
while entering Hartlepool, at about 7 P.M., on the 14th February, during a moderateS.S.E. gale, accompanied by a very heavy sea, ran ashore on the Beacon Eocks, owing to the thickness of...
Thomas
NEW BRIGHTON.—Signal rockets indicating that the services of the Life-boatwere required, having been fired by the Light-vessel and Coastguard Station on the night of the 14th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Henry RicJiardson pnt off in tow of...
Mermaid, of Grimsby
the 14th November the Life -boat Licensed Victualler was launched to rescue a boy who had bee.n left on board the smack Mermaid, of Grimsby, which vessel had parted from her cables while in charge of the boy and grounded 200 yards from the...
Marys
On the 16th January the Life-boat Andrew Pickard was again called out on service while a whole gale of wind was blowing from the S.E. The ketch Marys, of Aberystwith, while running for Hantoon Channel, having lost her mainsail, and showing...
Viucennes
At 9 A.M. on the 25th March, a three-masted barque was observed on the Codling Bank, and the Motor Life-boat Robert TheopMlus Garden was dispatched to her assistance.
Owing to the fact that the Life-boat had to proceed in...
James and Agnes
PORTHCAWL.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat Speedwell was informed by the pilot on watch, on the 7th April, that a vessel was running for the shore in a sinking condition. At 6.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, and proceeded, in a moderate N.N...
Ruby
On the 6th February, while the fishing fleet were at sea, the wind suddenly rose, bringing with it a very heavy sea. Most of the boats succeeded in getting into harbour, but one, named the Ruby, had her foresail carried away and was in...
None
Aith, Shetland*. — At 6.15 in the evening of the 22nd of March, 1948, a telephone message was received from a doctor that a man was seriously ill on the island of Papa Stour. A north- north-west gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...