LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Friendly Star
The steam drifter Friendly Star, of Lowestoft, stranded on the North Bank on 14th November, while bound for Yarmouth from the fishing grounds in a dense fog with a light W.S.W. wind. Information that the vessel was burning flares for help...
Runswick Bay
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th August a trawler was seen to be aground on the Middle Binks. She was the Runswick Bay, of Hull, bound for the fishing grounds and tarrying a crew of fifteen. A light breeze was blowing and...
Jemima Puddleduck
Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.38 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw flares on the North Scroby Sand. At 5.10 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched.
There was a ground swell and a light...
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
RICHARD ARMSTRONG Vent Grace Darling Maid and Myth A mariner by training, Mr. Armstrong presents Grace as a living girl, already a legend in her lifetime. His account of the wreck of the Forfarshire is entirely...
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The Ex-Fishing Boat Morag
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.14 on the morning of the 19th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seentwo to three miles off Lade. At 2.35 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched two hours after...
Exe, of Exeter
During squally weather, on the 28th March, 1872, the barque Exe, of Exeter, went on the New- come Sand in a very dangerous position.
The Kessingland No. 1 Life-boat, the Bolton, was promptly launched to her as- sistance ;...
The S.S. Overton
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1955, the Orlock coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run on the rocks a hun- dred yards south of Maidens. At 6.50 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put...
A Night With the Ramsgate Life-Boat. One Hundred and Twenty Lives Saved
I.—DISASTERS AT SEA. THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
To lie awake listening to the storm,—to hear the rush of the wind, now moaning in the chimney, now thundering at the windows, against which the rain beats and hustles,—to...
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Brereton, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
Gava
On the 20th October the steam trawler Gava, of Fleetwood, returning from the fishing grounds, struck a submerged rock while entering Castlebay harbour, and remained fast. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. Her signals...