LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alcedo
ALDBOROUGH.—The steamer Alcedo, of and for Bilbao, laden with cement and coke from Newcastle, and having a crew of twenty-one men, stranded on the ShipwashShipwash Sand while a strong S.W. wind was blowing on the 30th October, and broke her...
The S.S. Amisia
At 5.30 A.M. on the 7th December signals of distress were observed in the Barry Roads, and the assembly signal was fired for the crew of the Life-boat John Wesley. Before the boat was launched the tug-boat came into the harbour and reported...
Premier
— On the night of the 5th January, it was re- ported to the coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner that a fishing yawl with five men on board was in the Bay and had made flares for assistance. As the sea was very heavy,...
Volunteer and Sarah Davies
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Flares were shown by two vessels at anchor in Fishguard Bay while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather and snow, onthe llth February. Eockets were immediately fired at...
Harvest Queen
Boulmer, Northumberland.—Very early on the morning of the 17th February the steamer Harvest Queen, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, ran aground at Boulmer Steel. She carried a crew of five, and was bound from Seaham Harbour for Wick with a cargo of...
The Motor Fishing Coble Enterprize
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9 A.M.
on the 25th April the motor fishing coble Enterprize, with a crew of three, put to sea. A stiff breeze was blowing, and the sea was moderate. During the morning the sea rose rapidly, and...
George and Margaret, Hope-on, John and Margaret, and Our Boys
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 7th April the coastguard reported that five local fishing cobles were out, and that it would be very dangerous for them to make harbour. The sea was very rough, and a very strong,...
The S.S. Hudson Bay
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 30th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the S.S.
Hudson Bay, of London, had signalled that a man on board had fractured a thigh. She...
Michael Griffiths
On the 31st of January, 1953, two members of the crew of the Islay. Inner Hebrides, life-boat collapsed in the engine-room and died while the life- boat was searching for the trawler Michael Griffiths. This was the day on which the Princess...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, the local official of the Northern Lighthouse Board asked for the use of the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper from the Chickens Rock...