LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rudolf
HARTLEPOOL.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N. with a high seaon the 16th May, the brig Rudolf, of Trelleborg, laden, with mining timber, for Hartlepool, was seen driving ashore towards Seaton beach. The No. 2 Lifeboat, Charles...
The S.S. Shoreham
The s.s. Shoreham, of London, bound from Shoreham for the Tyne in ballast, stranded -on Cope Carr Point during foggy weather, on the 19th December, and showed signals of distress. At 6.15 P.M.
the William and Charles...
Laura
THORPENESS.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 20th May, the Ipswich Life-boat was launched to the assistance of the ketch Laura, of Harwich, bound from the north for Netley, Southampton, with coal, whichwas disabled during rough weather and a very heavy...
Fishing Boats (1)
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd February, the fishing-boats went out and shot their lines. At 10.30 a strong gale from the N. sprung up, rendering it difficult for the boats to haul in their...
Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—Several fishing cobles were returning home on the morning of the 18th March when the sea rapidly rose and rendered it highly dangerous for the boats to cross the bar. Two of them had very narrow escapes of broaching-to and being...
May Blossom
fishing coble May Blossom, of Whitby, had a trying1 experience when making for Whitby on the 24th March. The coble had been out to the crab pots, and when returning a heavy easterly sea was breaking across the entrance of the harbour. The...
Luna
On the 3rd June an alarm was given that there was a vessel ashore on Whitley Sands. At 4.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the vessel through a rough sea, the wind blowing a moderate breeze from N.E., and rescued her crew of...
The S.S. Texa
IRVINE.—The Life-boat Busbie was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 10th March, and proceeded to the assistance of the s.s. Texa, of Glasgow, bound from Glenarm for Irvine with limestone, which had stranded on the north side of the bar, at the...
A Vessel (1)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—14th January. 1938. A vessel appeared to be in distress, and in the absence of the coxswain and the second coxswain, the assistant motor mechanic took charge.
—Rewards, vellum and monetary...
Alpha (1)
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell rescued the crew of eight of the ketch Alpha, of Stranraer, and rescued six of them a second time after they had returned to the ketch. Rewards, the bronze...