LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (57)
JULY 3 0TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.47 A.M. a local resident telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in flames off Cley, and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.42 A.M.
The sea...
The Whitburn Fishing Boats
On the 5th January, the Whitburn fishing-boats were caught in a gale, and had to leave their lines and run for the shore, which, with some difficulty, all of them but one succeeded in reaching. The crew of that boat had become utterly...
An Empty Boat Belonging To The Aberdeen Trawler Bracken Burn
JULY 31ST. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 9.30 in the morning a message was received from the coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to a position thirteen miles southeast by east of Arbroath, in answer to a ship’s SOS. The weather was foggy...
Peggy II, and Jean and Barbara
DECEMBER 19TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to put out, as the fishing cobles were still at sea.
The sea was slight, but the strong northeasterly breeze was...
Oregon 1
JANUARY 4TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 8.10 in the morning the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Wilson Point, Belfast Lough. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat...
The Pilchard Seine
The Pilchard Seine belonging to this Cove being en- dangered on the 10th October from want of proper mooring, and the weather being too rough for launching any ordinary boat, the Life-boat Western Commercial Traveller, was lent to its crew...
Hoppet
SEATON CAREW,—On the morning of the 5fch December the brigantine Hoppet, of Helsingborg, Sweden, bound from Moss to Seaham with a cargo of pit props, was observed making for the land, during & terrific gale of wind from the E., with snow...
Frannaes
HARTLEPOOL.—At about 9 A.M. on the 5th October the brig Frannaes, of Brevig, Norway, was observed to be making for Hartlepool, in tow of a steam-tug, during an easterly gale and in a heavy sea. She grounded on Middleton Beach and filled with...
The S.S. Lady Eglington
WORKINGTON.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th December, the Life-boat Dodo was launched, signals of distress having been shown by the s.s. Lady Eglington, of and from Cardiff for Workington, with a cargo of coke, which had stranded on the north shore,...
Cannibiere
At 10 A.M.
on the 15th March the barque Ctwnebiere, of Marseilles, was observed being driven on to Duiidrum Bar, in the furious W.S.W. gale which was raging. The Life-boat Farnlcy was launched and proceeded to her. On...