LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Francis's Metallic Life-Saving Car
In an account of the New York Life-Saving Association, in the 19th Number of this Journal, we alluded to a metallic Life-Car, which, in conjunction with the mortar and rocket life apparatus, had been instrumental in saving a large...
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Mary, of Ramsey
On the 29th March, 1859, a sloop was observed driving towards the shore in Abergele Bay, North Wales. The Rhyl life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly con- veyed by horses to the bay, and launched.
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Teasel
NOVEMBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 1.19 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard telephoned that a motor vessel was making for St. Ives Bay and required a pilot. A strong north wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, and...
Hoppet
SEATON CAREW,—On the morning of the 5fch December the brigantine Hoppet, of Helsingborg, Sweden, bound from Moss to Seaham with a cargo of pit props, was observed making for the land, during & terrific gale of wind from the E., with snow...
Eleonore
On the 20th March, at about 5.30 A.M., the No. 2 Life-boat Roman Governor of Oaer Hun, was launched to the assistance of the brig Eleonore, of Tonsberg, Norway, which was showing signals of distress.
She went ashore about a...
Dorothy Watson
WHITBURN, Co. DURHAM.—While the schooner Dorothy Watson,of North Shields, was being towed by a steam-tug in company with another vessel in a S.E. wind and a strong ground swell and surf on the 10th July, she was caught by the breakers and...
Ellwood
On the 7th November, the schooner Ell-wood, of Dublin, bound from Wicklow to Gaston with a cargo of timber, also got into difficulties when in the outer roads Holyhead Bay. In response to her signals the Duke of Northumberland put off and...
Concurrent and Waterlily
FORMBY.—Two vessels being sighted in a very dangerous position on the Great Burbo Bank, having run aground in a fog, on the 21st March, the Life-boat John and Henrietta was launched at 8.15 A.M., and after a long pull reached the vessels and...
Fishing Boats (2)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 18th February the local fishing fleet put to sea, but the weather grew bad and all but four boats returned.
At 10 A.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched, to...
Kestrel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 2nd October, 1938, a small boat near the edge of the Burbo Bank in the Rock Channel was seen to be flying a distress signal. A fresh, squally west breeze was blowing, with a...