LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gaspard, of St Malo
The schooner Gaspard, of St. Malo, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 3rd Jan., 1869. The Rams- gate life-boat Bradford went off, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, on signals being fired from one of the light-ships, and on arriving...
Eden
TORQUAY.—About 9 P.M. on the 5th November, during a W.N.W. gale, it was reported that signals of distress were being shown by a vessel in the offing. The Mary Brundret Life-boat was launched, and on reaching the vessel, which was about...
A Barge
NEWPORT, PEMBROKESHIRE.—The Lifeboat Clevedon was the means of rendering timely service on the occasion of the Begatta held on the 17th August. A strong wind sprung up from the N.N.E., and the sea was somewhat rough, and the barge on which...
Doreen
At about 9 P.M. on the 14th January the Coxswain, of the Life-boat Arthur B.
Dawes discovered that a vessel was ashore on the rocks of Boulmer South Steel. The night was very dark, with a thick atmosphere. The boat was...
Westward
Margate, Kent. — On the night of the 3rd October the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that information had been received from the Tongue Light-vessel that a vessel was dragging her anchor and making signals of distress. A south...
Mona
At 7.50 P.M. on the 9th July a telephone mes- sage was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Office that the Crosby lightship had reported a fishing boat ashore in a dangerous position near C.2 Black Buoy in the Crosby Channel....
Jonquil
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.47 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1952, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht had been reported aground off Kilmory to the west of Bennan Head, Arran, and at 5.57 the life-boat City of Glasgow...
Heimdal (1)
Wicklow, and Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—• At 10.12 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the Wicklow life- boat's motor mechanic heard a mes- sage from the Portpatrick radio station that the Swedish steamer Heimdal was drifting near...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....
Fishing Boats and Ursula
Walmer, Kent. At 1.55 on the after- noon of the 27th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that residents at Walmer and Kingsdown had seen a number of small fishing boats in difficulties because of a sudden...