LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Virtruvius, of Liverpool
On the 1st Decem- ber, during a terrific gale, the brigantine Vitruvius, of Liverpool, was seen to anchor in a very dangerous position in the Skerries Roads. The Zelimda life-boat was at once launched, but, after proceeding some distance, it...
Tankerton Tower
During a westerly gale on the 22nd June, the schooner Tankerton Tower, of Faversham, got into a dangerous position near Formby Point. She was bound at the time from Dublin to Liverpool in ballast, and had five men on board.
Annie
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL. — At about 5.10 P.M., on the 17th June, the Coastguard reported that a vessel about four miles N. of Towan Head was in need of assistance. A strong breeze from N. was then blowing, the sea was moderate and the weather...
C.E.C.G
On the loth March, during the afternoon, a message was received that a ketch was apparently running for Montrose, and asking that the Life-boat might be on the look-out for her. An hour later she appeared, and it was seen that she in- tended...
Accident With a Maroon
A MOST unfortunate accident, resulting in the death of the Coxswain, occurred at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on 6th August, on which day Life-boat Day and a Road Practice of the Life-boat were to be held. Coxswain Kneen, in firing the maroon...
Category: Articles
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat
Information was received at mid-day on the 4th January that a small boat, in which two youths had gone fishing at 4 A.M., was overdue, and the Coast- guard at Marsden reported that a small boat about three miles to the...
Sonny Boy
During a whole N.N.E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, on the afternoon of the 28th October, an object, which looked like a boat, was seen and kept under observation by the Coxswain. Later it was reported that the local motor fishing...
Jehoiah Wick
In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 2nd December, and rescued the crew of four hands of the fishing-boat JehoiaJi Wick, of Hoylake, which was in distress...
Edvard
WALTON - ON - THE - NAZE. — Guns and rockets, indicating that a vessel was in distress, having been fired on the 10th November, the Life-boat Honourable Artil-lery Company was launched at 4.38 P.M., and proceeded under oars to the Sunk Light...