LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christina
On the 17th February, the schooner Christina, of Timmel, bound from Shields for Teignmouth, with coal, was observed ashore on the Hasborough Sands. The Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 10 A.M., in a very heavy sea, the wind blowing a...
A Trawler
28th July.
A trawler had stranded, but was found to have been abandoned.—Rewards, £4 12s. 6d..
A Small Steamer
DECEMBER 20TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A small steamer had been reported to have disappeared in a cloud of smoke, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £20 4s..
A Steamer (5)
FEBRUARY 15TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A steamer had been reported to have struck a bank, or a reef, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £37 14s. 6d..
Two Vessels (4)
AUGUST 6TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. Two vessels had been reported to have lost their bearings in a thick fog, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d.
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo
WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.
—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo (2)
WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.
—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...
Pussy Galore
At 3.58 p.m. on 12th August, 1969, the coastguard informed the staff coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties off Minster Boom. The lifeboat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, immediately slipped her moorings in a moderate south south...
A Merchant Vessel
Long haul for Harwich's new Severn Harwich was the first station to receive a new Severn class lifeboat (on 20 October 1996) and it was not long before the speed and endurance of the new class was put to the test.
On 12...
The Passenger Ferry Laerling
Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...