LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 18th November, the Licensed Victualler life-boat put off, during a strong wind and hazy weather, and rescued from their boat the crew of 16 men belonging to the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg, which had gone on the Woolpack Sand, about...

On the 29th Decem- ber, the brig Wodgast, of Woolgast, Prussia, was observed in distress near the South Scarr Rocks, during stormy weather. The Caroline life-boat was quickly launched, and succeeded in getting the vessel out of her perilous...

WHITEHAVEN.—On the evening of the 17th September about 5 o'clock, at about half tide, there was a strong southwesterly wind and a heavy sea. The schooner Kate, of Peel, 122 tons register,was coming into Whitehaven Harbour light, for coal...

At 2 P.M. on the 6th May, the steamer Queen Louise, of Glasgow, carrying a crew of twenty-nine persons, stranded oi\ the rocks half a mile south of Seaham. There was a moderate N.E. wind blowing with a heavy ground swell, and this prevented...

On the 7th May a strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., and several vessels sheltering in the Bay were seen to be riding heavily to their anchors. Shortly before 2 P.M.

one of the schooners began to drag her anchors, and her...

.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th December a schooner in the Caldy Roads, which had been slowly dragging her anchors all the morning, got into a very dangerous position, and was seen to make signals of distress. The Life-boat William 'and...

The Mayor of Gosport presenting the Challenge Shield for the South-West of England to Miss Barbara Bull, of Lees Girls' School, Gosport, who won the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland.. - View image in PDF

A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...