LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...

St. Ives, Cornwall.—At midnight on the lst-2nd November the coastguard reported a vessel ashore west of St.

Ives. She was the American steamer Bessemer City, of New York, bound from Liverpool for London with a general cargo...

— The brig Robert Bruce, of Belfast, while attempting, on the 7th February, to get into Maryport Harbour, fell to leeward and struck the ground to the northward, and although the anchors were let go, she beat up into the surf The sea made a...

Home port of the 44' Waveney Offshore Lifeboat The Scout and Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Guide Friendship III by Joan Davies BY THE EXPRESS WISH of Her Majesty The Queen, the theme for this, her Silver Jubilee year, is youth and the...

LAST spring, when the Motor Life-boat Princess Mary was sent to Padstow, the larger of the two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats at that station, and the Steam Tug, Helen Peele, were withdrawn from service, while the smaller Life-boat will,...

The position of the life-boat house and slip at St. Abbs is such that the life-boat has to be launched with more than the usual amount of care. This is because fishing boats, driving in in a storm, might be damaged on the slip if it pointed... - View image in PDF

The ketch Friendship, of Goole, having sprung a leak off St.

Abbs Head, would not steer and could not fetch a port, and she consequently drifted on the Annat sandbank, off Mon- trose, early on the morning of the 15th...

During the night of the 7th February the schooner Zouave was lost on the Hasbro' Sand. She belonged to Ports- mouth, was bound from that place to Seaham, and carried a crew of 6 hands.

The night was hazy and the wind...