LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vixen
On the 9th April the small steam-tug the Vixen, of Shields, was ob- served at anchor in a heavy sea from .E.N.E., with a flag of distress flying. The Cromer Lifeboat, the Benjamin Band Cabbett, was launched through a heavy surf to her...
Gustaf
CRESSWELL.—At 2 A.M. on the 5th January, during a gale at S.E., the steamer Gustaf, of Gothenburg, in Sweden, was wrecked in Dunridge Bay, near Cresswell, on the coast of Northumberland. On the lights of the vessel being observed, the crew...
Mary Lloyd
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—On the 19th April, at 3 P.M., a schooner was seen entering Ballycotton Sound with a signal of distress flying. The pilot boat was manned and went out, but the weather was too stormy,' a gale from the...
Magdalen Esther
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At about 1.30 A.M., on the 28th October, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Langhame Sands, about eight miles west of Ferryside. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.W., with heavy squalls, and the...
Shamrock
THEDDLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At daybreak on the 19th April the trawler Shamrock, of Hull, was observed ashore about a quarter of a mile N. of the Theddlethorpe Life-boat station, during stormy weather and a very heavy...
Lom
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 23rd October a flash light was observed from a vessel ashore on the Knock Sands. The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched as soon as possible, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the S.SE. at the time,...
A Pilot Boat
TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON.—A pilot boat, belonging to Teignmouth and manned by five men, was running for the harbour during a S.E. wind and a rough sea, at 11 A.M. on the 17th of March, when a broken sea suddenly overtook her and capsized her. The...
Mary Jane
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While a moderate gale from the S.S.W. was blowing and in thick weather, the schooner Mary Jane, of and for Eamsey from Whitehaven with a cargo of coal, was seen labouring heavily, having her sailstorn and rendered...
Alcedo
ALDBOROUGH.—The steamer Alcedo, of and for Bilbao, laden with cement and coke from Newcastle, and having a crew of twenty-one men, stranded on the ShipwashShipwash Sand while a strong S.W. wind was blowing on the 30th October, and broke her...
Janie
The schooner Janie, i of Padstow, whilst bound from Llanelly to London, stranded during moderate weather on the 23rd February on the north-west part of the Tongue sand.
In response to signals from light- vessels the No. 1...