LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Sisters' Memorial life-boat on this station was called out on service on the 4th November, the Dutch brigantine Catharina driving ashore and becoming a total wreck in Llandudno Bay on that day in a strong gale from the N.N.W. and a...

When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.

Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...

SCARBOROUGH.—Signals of distress were shown on the 2nd March by the schooner Speculation, of and from Kragero for Anstruther, with ice. The Life-boat Queensbury was launched at 6.45 P.M., and proceeded to the vessel, which had lost some of...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.— Signals of distress being shown by the brigantine Parkside, of Dundalk, on the 11th May, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a heavy sea, the Life-boat Mary Isabella put off to her a-sistance at 9.55 A.M....

On the 2nd August the dandy Fraternite, of Fecamp, whilst beating through the roads, collided with a steamer and was commencing to sink. Her crew took to their boat and were picked up by a shrimping boat and taken to Yarmouth. The Gorleston...

LYNMOUTH.—The Life-boat Louisa was launched at 3 P.M. on the 19th February, a vessel having been reported to be in distress. A whole gale was blowing from the E.N.E., the sea was rough, the weather was thick and snow was falling. On reaching...

CADGWITH AND LIZARD, CORNWALL.— Early on the morning of the 24th May the Cadgwith Life-boat Joseph Armstrong and the Lizard Life-boat Anna Maria were launched and proceeded, under sail and oars, to the assistance of the schooner Ellen Vair,...

THE brig Mountaineer was wrecked on Walmer Beach, on the 24th November, in a heavy gale from the eastward, when the crew, consisting of thirteen men and boys, with three Deal boatmen (the pilot, one Deal boatman, and two of the crew having...