LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Corsair
COUBTOWN, Co. WEXFORD.—The Alfred and Ernest Life-boat put off at noon on the 9th August, signals of distress having been shown from the schooner Corsair, of Arklow. That vessel had for several months past been stranded on the beach about a...
Hope
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—A vessel was seen ashore on the north side of Puffin Island, during a moderate gale from the N.N.E.
and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 13th of October, and some men were observed on the island. The...
Expedite
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...
Die Manten
MONTROSE and ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—On the afternoon of the 23rd March, the brig Die Manten, of Arendal, Norway, bound thence to Leith with a cargo of pit props, arrived off Lunan Bay. The captain and 2 men put off from the vessel in a boat to try...
Fortuna
PLYMOUTH.—Sockets were sent up from Batten Coastguard Station during a very heavy gale from S.W. to W.S.W. at 6 A.M.
on the 28th October. The Life-boat Clemency went out to render assistance to any vessel in distress, and...
Fishing Boats
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
A Small Boat (2)
At 6.50 P.M. on the 30th April a message was received from the Coastguard at Shoreham that a small boat had cap- sized about half a mile off the Towers, West Worthing. The Motor Life-boat Samuel Oakes was launched at 7.12...
Pulper
At 1.15 P.M. on the 25th May the Chief Officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing distress signals off Clogher Head. The crew of the Lifeboat Charles Whitton were assembled and the boat was promptly launched. She pro- ceeded...
Kindly Light
At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one of the fishing boats, the Kindly Light, had not returned from the fishing grounds.
The coastguard stations at Bamburgh, Holy Island and Sea Houses were warned...
Fishing Cobles (3)
Early on the morning of the 29th December the Staithes fishing cobles put out to the fishing grounds. The wind was light, but a strong easterly sea was running.
Later on the weather got very thick, and the sea got very much...