LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
William Clowes
On the 6th March a fearful gale from the H.E. was experienced.
At 2 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the fishing-yawl William Clowes, of Mley, which was at anchor in the bay. As the tide was then close up to the...
Danmark
At 3 P.H. on the 3rd of October, a large barque was seen ashore an the West Gunfleet Sands, and with the aid of a powerful telescope a signal of distress was made out. The crew of the Albert Edward Life-boat were at once summoned, and the...
Ceres
KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—On the 21st of March the cutter Ceres, of Poole, bound to that port from Truro, with barley, which had been hove to owing to a dense fog, had just been got round with her head to the S. when the wind suddenly changed, and...
Ebenezer
On the 19th February, while a strong easterly wind was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and snow showers, the barque Ebenezer, of Porsgrund, bound from G-rimsby for Norway, with a cargo of coal, was seen to the eastward of Banff with her...
Justice
MARGATE, KENT.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 15th March, while a strong gale was blowing from N.W. and a rough sea was running, information was given by the Coastguard that a vessel was on the N.W. part of Margate Sand. The Life-boat Civil Service No....
Minnie Coles
On Sunday morning, the 12th November, the schooner Minnie Coles, of Chester, with a cargo of coal from Kuncorn, arrived off Arklow harbour, and was compelled, owing to the heavy seas, to anchor about a mile outside. During the after- noon an...
Begonia
At about 9 P.M. on the 4th March the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a vessel in the vicinity of the " Sow and Pigs" rocks, and about half-an-hour later she made signals indicating that something was wrong. The assembly signal...
Mary Jane
About 8.15 P.M.
on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind...
Inchcolm
The Life-boat William Arthur Millward was called out shortly after nine in the morning on the 21st August to a vessel which had stranded on the Peffer Sands, some miles westward of Dunbar. The Life-boat was promptly launched, not without...
Hiskilina
At daybreak on the 16th December a schooner was observed in distress be- tween one and two miles off Stonehaven Bay. The weather for three days had been very stormy, with high seas running, and it was feared that she would become a total...