PORT ISAAC.—On the 20th February, during a heavy gale from N.W., the barque Ada Melmore, of Maryport, was observed at anchor close in upon the rocks, near Port Quin, 4 miles from Port Isaac, with Signals of distress flying. About 9...
On the 7th November, at 5 A.M., the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat was launched, signals of distress having been shown by vessel on the Newcomb Sand. A moderate S.S. W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a rough sea. On arriving at the...
LLANDDWYN.—On the 23rd November, the Life-boat John Gray Sell went out through a very heavy surf and rescued 9 of the crew of the three-masted schooner Fred. Eugene, of Portland, Maine, which was in distress off Llanddwyn Point, having lost...
GORLESTON.—On the 15th November at 2 A.M., while a fresh and increasing breeze was blowing from the N.N.E., with a rough sea and foggy weather, flares were seen in the direction of the North Sand.
The crew of the Gorleston...
There are other ways, besides saving life from shipwreck, in which the Life- boats occasionally do service. They have taken doctors to sick men on Light- houses, and recently the Tenby Motor Life-boat took bread out to a storm- bound vessel....
Category: Services
IRELAND succeeds in making even her visitors Irish. We have had a report from Ireland from one of our organisers, who is not an Irishman, which begins : " In reply to my letter addressed to the old Honorary Treasurer (who had not...
Category: Articles
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady...
Category: Obituaries
A CONCERT, largely arranged and carried out by the Crew of the Motor Life-boat, was held at Hythe, Kent, on 29th and 30th January last. The notices warned purchasers of tickets that if a call for the Life-boat came, the concert would be...
Category: Articles
The Motor Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.50 P.M. on the 17th April, in a strong and gusty E. breeze with a rough sea, as the Coastguard had received a message by telephone that a small boat had capsized off Jaywick, two miles...
Two men who had gone out at 1 P.M. on the 23rd June for a few hours' pleasure fishing in the motor boat Sleuth Hound were overtaken by a thick fog. As they did not return it was thought that they had landed somewhere along the coast, but...