LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Haddock Boats
The Life-boat Theophilus Sidney Echalaz was launched at 1 P.M. on the 18th March for the safety of seven crab boats and three haddock boats, as there was a very strong gale blowing from S.E., and there was also a heavy sea running. As the...
The Fishing Cobles
The fishing cobles put to sea about 6.30 A.M.
on the 28th November. A moderate breeze from the south was then blowing.
About 10.30 A.M. the wind increased in force causing the sea to rise, and it became...
A Fishing Boat Named Flossie
A small fishing-boat named the Flossie was seen to be in difficulties in Port Isaac Bay on the 30th May, a southerly gale having suddenly sprung up. The I occupant of the boat at once made for the shore, but the boat shipped so much water...
The Fane
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.- - On the 13th January the Life-boat Colonel Stock was launched during foggy weather to the assistance of the ketch The Fane, of Bridgwater, which had stranded at Sand Point. There was a ' strong westerly...
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...
M.K.D.
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having reported a vessel ashore at Waxham on the 16th March, the No. 1 Lifeboat Good Hope was taken on her transporting carriage along the shore to the scene of the disaster. A strong gale was blowing from...
Toivo
On the 5th October, flares were shown by the barque Toivo, of Nagu, bound from Uleaborg for London, which had grounded on the North Sand in a strong S. by W. breeze and a rough sea. Eight of the'Life-boat men went on board the vessel and...
The S.S. Cabenda
SILLOTH.—The S.s. Cabenda, of London, bound from Glasgow for Silloth, parted one of her cables and stranded on a bank about half a mile N.E. of the harbour in a whole gale from the S. and a moderate sea on the 7th February. The Life-boat...
Holly How
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message havisg been received on the night of the 28th March reporting a vessel stranded on Crosby Beach, the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 11.20 and proceeded through a heavy sea, the...
Loch Long, of Aberdeen
St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...