LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Wales' Day In London
PRINCE OF WALES' DAY throughout Greater London was held on 8th May, and the chief feature of the day, and a great factor in the success of the appeal, was the personal visits which the Prince of Wales paid to depots in the East and South...
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Darling, from Beaumaris
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 28th January, at 1.30 P.M., a signal from the Crosby Lightship gave warning that a vessel in distress near Tailor's Bank required the aid of a Life-boat. The tubular Life-boat was thereupon manned, and proceeded in...
Iron Duke
CAISTER.—At about 3 A.M. on the 1st November, signals of distress were ob-served, and the Life-boat Covent Garden put off. She proceeded in the direction of the signals, across the Scroby Sand, and found the fishing smack Iron Duke, of...
Effigo
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, put off on the 22nd October to the assistance of the schooner Effigo, of Goole, which had stranded on the Newcome Sand during a strong E.
breeze. The vessel had floated...
Golden Island
HOLYHEAD.—During a heavy gale from the W., at 9 A.M. on the 14th October, signals of distress were reported to have been shown by two or three vessels anchored in dangerous positions in the bay. The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched, but...
Erminia
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.—-The barque Erminia was driven past Workington in a W.N.W. gale on the 2nd August. The master was ashore, and was unable to get back to the vessel. She ultimately struck upon the banks and carried away her rudder,...
A Small Punt
ARDROSSAN.—On the afternoon of the 31st January it was reported that a man and woman had been observed at about 7 A.M. going off in a small punt to Horse Island for the purpose of gathering whelks, and as a gale had suddenly sprung up from...
Tealkenia Meiskeina
This life-boat was also taken out on the night of the 3rd October, a vessel having been reported to be stranded on the Gore Sands, on which, on account of recent gales, a considerable sea was running, preventing any ordinary boat from...
Sweet Home
— The schooner Sweet Some, of this port, sailed thence to Cardiff on the evening of the 15th August, but in beating out of the harbour she drove ashore at Moll Goggin's Corner.
The master and boy remained oa board to...
Standard
About noon on tbo Gth August, during a strong W.N.W. gale and rough sea, the Coastguard reported that the ketch Standard, of Fowey, was dragging her anchors and was in danger on a lee shore in Dublin Bay. The Life-boat Dimleary was promptly...