LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welcome Home
The schooner Welcome Home, of Plymouth, was observed about 7 A.M. on the 19th November running for Hayle in an E.N.E. gale, and when attempting to cross the bar she stranded. The assembly signal for the Life-boat crew was at once fired, and...
Electric
At 3.30 P.M. on the 9th October the spritsail barge Electric, of London, stranded on the S.E. part of the Margate Sands; the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was there- fore launched to her assistance. The vessel was found lying in a very...
Eleanor
The brigantine Eleanor, of Yarmouth, whilst bound from Seaham to Whitstable with a cargo of coal, was totally wrecked 011 the Sunk Sands on the 18th January.
The weather was hazy and cold, with a strong E.S.E. wind blowing...
John and Emma
8.45 A.M. on the 23rd July, the Coastguard reported that a Lowestoft smack was ashore on the north part of the Barrow Sands.
Coxswain Haylett at once assembled the crew and kept the smack under observation for some time...
Black Bird
On 24th April, during fine weather, the Life-boat Albert Edward saved the small cutter yacht Slack Bird and her two occupants.
The vessel stranded on the Buxey Sands during the night and lost her...
Sophia, of Hull
On the 6th August the Life-boat Leicester, stationed at this place, rendered valuable assistance to the smack Sophia, of Hull, laden with coal, which ves- sel, while on a voyage from the Hnmber to London, got on the North Sand off Gor-...
Yla Section
A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
Category: Articles
Skogaland
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.30 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Skogaland of Gothenburg, which was 180 miles off Barra, had a sick seaman on board. It was decided to...
A Dinghy
DINGHY ON ROCKS At 1.30 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy had capsized in Puffin Sound. The Life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 1.34. There was a strong...
Dolphin (1)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 12th of June» 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that the cabin cruiser Dolphin of Southend, on passage to Wallasea Bay was...