LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

POOLS, DORSET.—On the 9th January, at about 2.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from the B.S.E. and a high sea, signals being heard from the sandbanks, the Soys' Own, No. 2, Life-boat was launched, and towed by a steamer to the mouth of the...

The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....

On the 15th January intelligence having been received that a vessel had stranded at Kirkton Head, the Life-boat was launched at 9.20 A.M., and sailed to the vessel which was reached about 9.45.

A gale of wind was blowing...

A fine service was performed by the Laetitia, the Life-boat stationed here, on the 13th November. the morning of that day she went off to tow of the steam-tug Bairibow to a Norwegian vessel named Expedite, belong- Iing to Drobeck, which had...

ner, this Life-boat was again called off to another vessel, the brig Lisbon,,vhich, after daylight, was seen to be aground on the same sand. On boarding her, the master and mate were found in an ex- hausted condition, having been in the...

DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E....

Soon after mid- night on the 24th-25th February the coastguard at Portland Bill telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about three- and a half miles south-west of the Bill. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, a heavy sea was running,...

The ketch James, of Carnarvon, whilst bound from Port Dinorwic in ballast, anchored in Porthdinllaen Bay on the 6th January. A whole N.N.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and as the vessel was lying in an exposed posi- tion she was kept...