LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Adieu Va
— During a whole W.S.W. gale and heavy sea on the 27th October a telegram was received from the Clontarf Coastguard, stating that two vessels were showing signals of distress. As both vessels were in dangerous positions, about one mile north...
Heather Belle
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...
Rainbow
Life-boat and safely landed at 8.45 A.M.
On the 3rd March flares were seen on the North Sand and signals were fired by the light-vessel. The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.35 A.M. in a very heavy sea, the wind...
Speculation
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...
Parkside
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....
Fraternite
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...
Pollie
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...
Ellen Vair (1)
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,...
A Hundred Years Ago
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...
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Ethel Edith
During a fresh S. gale on 13th January, with a very rough sea, the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., that a ketch, which was found to be the Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a crew of four and bound with maize from London to Great...