LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blossom
CRUDEN.—On the 27th February, the Life-boat Peep o' Day was launched about 3.30 A.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 3 men, from the schooner Blossom, of Aberdeen. This vessel had missed stays in the bay, and bad gone ashore on...
Book Reviews
THE third volume in Cyril Noall's and Grahame Farr's series Wreck and Rescue around the Cornish Coast (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 28s.) tells the history of life-boat stations on the south coast of Cornwall. These are: Mullion,...
Category: Articles
South-Eastern District Conference
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...
Category: Committee
Elizabeth, of Carlisle
On the 26th October, at 9.30 A.M., the Life-boat William Tomlinson was launched to the assistance of the schooner Elizabeth, of Carlisle, which had driven ashore near Seascale, a heavy sea breaking on the beach and it blowing hard at S.S.W....
Frank, of Grimsby
WITHERNSEA.—On the 8th January, at 5 A.M., the smack Frank, of Grimsby, having on board a crew of 10 persons, was driven ashore off Waxholme, 2 miles north of Withernsea, during an E.S.E.
gale, accompanied by a heavy sea....
Margaritta
NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—On the evening of the 26th December a vessel was reported to be ashore in Dundrum Bay.
A very severe gale was raging at the time.
The Life-boat Reigati was promptly launched, and...
Eboe
Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 3 A.M. on the 20th February. The Lifeboat was launched, and proceeded to the barqne Eboe, of Liverpool, bound from that port for Africa with a general cargo; she had 6 feet of water in her hold,...
Fishing Boats
— Several fishing boats were making for the harbour during a S.
wind, on the morning of the 18th May, and as a very heavy sea was breaking across the entrance, it was evident that the boats would encounter some amount of...
Fishing Cobles
. — Several cobles were out fishing on the morning of the 13th October, when a gale sprung up from the N.E., and the sea became very heavy.
Some of the boats returned to the shore before the sea had risen very much, but two...
Lydia
ST. AGNES', ISLES OF SCILLY.—At 9 P.M., on the 21st March, signals were seen in St. Mary's Sound. In ten minutes the Life-boat James and Caroline was launched and proceeded to the spot, under sail, through a moderate sea, the wind...