WEXFORD.—At about 3.30 P.M. on the llth February, while a strong gale was blowing from the W.S.W., the fishing yawl Prima Donna, of Wexford, grounded on the south side of the bar. The No. 1 Life-boat, Andrew Pickard, was at once manned and...
IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...
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Shortly after 4.30 P.M. on the llth March a telegram was received from St. Abbs stating that a large vessel was sinking off the Head with a fishing boat standing by her. The assembly signal for the Life-boat's crew was fired and within...
The Life-boat William Erie was called in a moderate N.E. wind but thick fog, soon after midnight on the 26—27th January, by a telephone message, which reported a steamer was ashore at St. Alban's Head.
The vessel proved...
In the early morning of the 30th September the ketch Energy, of Gloucester, stranded on Bembridge Ledge, and some of the local fishermen went off to her in a large fishing-boat. On arriving at the vessel the captain stated that he would...
In response to signals of distress fired by the Cork light-vessel on the 30th October, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was sent to sea. On reaching the light- vessel, the master reported that a vessel was burning flares to the...
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th April, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and cold and squally weather, the Coxswain of the Life-boat who was working on the island, saw a flat driven...
The bar- quentine Britannia, of Guernsey, whilst bound from London to Hartlepool, stranded on the Cockle Sand on the 4th October. There was a moderate N.W. gale blowing, increasing to a heavy gale, and the sea on the sands was very heavy. A...
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 6th December, in a moderate N.E. gale with a heavy sea, and escorted into safety four of the local fishing cobles which had been overtaken by the bad...
On the 13th December the motor life-boat went out to warn the Cromer motor life-boat, which was out on another service, to return to Cromer to the help of the barge Sepoy.— Rewards, £14 13*. (For a full account of this launch see page...