LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the...
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Pastime
Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk carrier Sugar Producer was...
Emily Raymond
At 10.30 A.M. on the 14th November, the brigantine Emily Raymond, of St. John's, N.B., then aground on the North Bar, Wexford Harbour, exhibited signals of distress. A gale was blowing from the N.W. at the time, with a very bad sea on....
White Rose
GORLESTON.—On the afternoon of the 15th April, the smack White Rose, of Yarmouth, whilst endeavouring to enter Tarmouth Harbour, inconsequence of a heavy ground swell, and a considerable sea on the bar, ran aground on it. A yawl which went...
Major, of Lyne
The schooner Major, of Lynn, ran aground at Holme on the morning of the 30th September. ^The Life-boat, Licensed Victualler, was at once despatched to the distressed vessel, and was, fortunately, the means of rescuing the crew, consisting of...
Etoile du Marin
SCARBOROUGH.-—On the morning of the 8th December, at 10 o'clock, the schooner Etoile du Marin, of and for Dunkirk from Leith, with coal, was approaching the harbour during a strong gale from the E., and a very heavy sea, and as it was...
Venus
SOUTHEND AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.
Signal guns having been fired by the lightships on the evening of the 10th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert put off from Southend and the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched...
Fishing Cobles
RUNSWICK.—Seven fishing cobles belonging to Staithes were observed outside the bar at Eunswick on the morning of the 10th July, being afraid to cross the bar on account of the tremendous sea, the wind blowing a gale from the...
Appledram
DUNGENESS.—The ketch Appledram, of Foole, sprung a leak and foundered on the sand off No. 2 Battery on the 2 ad August, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing. The No. 1 Life-boat, E.A.O.B., was launched at 9.30 A.M., and the Life-boat...
Alexander Duthie
NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHRE.—The Lifeboat Ullen Newman and John Bentley was launched on the 5th March to the aid of a small pleasure-boat, the Alexander Duthie, of Aberdeen, which had put outto sea during the morning intending to proceed to...