LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viscount Lambton, of Rochester
Duff, did good service on the 22nd March in saving the Master and crew of 7 men from the brig Viscount Lambton, of Roches-ter, which had gone on Yarmouth Beach, near the North Star Battery, during a i gale from the E.S.E., and in a very...
Loch Wasdale
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...
Adventure, of Harwick
On the night of the 3rd November, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, ran ashore on the North Sand, near Yarmouth. The Institution's smaller life- boat at that place was quickly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in taking off her...
Vier Broders
WINCHELSEA.—On the 22nd December, at about 6.45 P.M., signals of distress were reported to have been shown about two miles west of the Life-boat station. The Storm Sprite Life-boat proceeded, and with some difficulty succeeded in rescuing...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Again on the 20th January the Staithes fishing-cobles went out to their usual fishing-ground. During the day the sea became very strong, with heavy snowshowers, and when the boats returned at about 4 P.M. they found it was impossible to land...
Industry
A signal of distress was observed from a vessel in Forthdinllaen Bay during a strong gale from the N.W. on the 22nd December. The crew of the George Moore Life-boat immediately assembled, the Boat was launched at 5.30 P.M. and rescued the...
Milan
PORT EYNON.—At 7 P.M. on the 13th January the Daughter's Offering Life-boat was launched during a dense fog and a heavy ground sea, and succeeded in rescuing eleven of the crew of the steamer Milan, of Hull, bound from Alexandria for...
Janet
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At 12.80 A.M. on the 13th December, signals of distress having been shown by the brig Janet, of Peterhead, which had stranded about three hundred yards N. of Bing Head, the Life-boat Robert and Susan was launched...
Fishing Boats (1)
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The fishing-boats went out at 7.30 A.M., on the 12th February, and at about 10 o'clock were compelled to return, a very heavy sea having sprung up. Four of the boats were assisted by the Life-boat Meliscent,...
Laura Griffith
The schooner Laura Griffith,bound from Port- madoc to Sunderland with a cargo of slates, was observed at anchor in a dangerous position near the Tuns Bank on the 5th October. As the weather was very threatening and the sea heavy, the...