LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Neuha, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 4th January, 1863, the ketch Neuha, of Berwick-upon-Tvveed, having got on shore on the Abertay Bank in a gale fromE.S.E., with foggy weather, the Mary Hartley life- boat, stationed at Broughty Ferry, pro- ceeded to her assistance....
Devonshire of Liverpool
On the 27th November signals of distress were observed between 3 and 4 miles distant from this place. The crew of the Llanddwyn life-boat were at once assembled, and the boat went off and found the vessel riding with two anchors down. She...
Girl Ann
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1955, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that an ex-coastguardsman at Feorlin had reported that two ex- hausted men from the fishing boat Girl Ann, of Fraserburgh,...
Pococita
Cromer, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1957, the coxswain of the no. 2 life-boat received a message from the coastguard that a small boat was ashore five miles south-east of Cromer on Trimingham beach. The...
Afternoon
At 11.10 P.M.
on the 4th June the Coastguard reported that the Swin Middle Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the motor Life-boat Albert Edward were at once assembled and the boat...
Rescue from a Norwegian Ship
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
Category: Services
Christine Elisabeth
HARWICH.—At about 10 A.M. on the 13th November the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out and proceeded with the Reserve No. 3 Lifeboat in tow to the upper part of the Long Sand, where the three-masted schooner Christine...
William, of Liverpool
On the 9th February, the schooner William of Liverpool ran ashore, during a heavy gale, a mile and a half west of Rhyl.
The tubular life-boat, stationed at Rhyl, was launched as soon as practicable, and proceeded to the...
Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell
ANOTHER great figure on the North- East Coast has also passed away by the death on 2nd February last of Mrs.
Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell. She was perhaps the best known of that devoted body of women who, in the little...
Category: Obituaries
Staithes
During a thick fog on the llth September signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Cowbar Steel. One of the cobles put off, but found that it was not pos- sible to approach the vessel which had stranded on the Steel. She returned...