LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
C. Neumann Gaedebehn
WALMER.—A telegram was received on ,he morning of the 3rd November, stating that a vessel was ashore in Pegwell Bay.A gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W., with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was...
Agnes, of Preston
MARCH 29TH . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 3.50 in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat was ashore on the Burbo Bank and that seas were washing over her. Two men and a boy were on board. A strong west-southwest,...
Ramlah, Freda and Rosamund
OCTOBER 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Fishing cobles had put to sea at 8 A.M., and all except three had returned by noon. By 1 P.M. a strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, making it dangerous for cobles to come...
Minnie, of Rye
DECEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At two in the afternoon a fisherman reported a fishing boat in distress about one mile southsouth- west of Dungeness Lighthouse. She was seen to have a flag flying and had burned a flare....
Ridesdale
RAMSGATE.—On the 13th November, at 3 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the E.N.E., signals were fired from the Gull lightship, in response to which the Bradford Life-boat and steam-tug Aid proceeded to the sands, and found a barque ashore...
Lady Carter, of Liverpool
On the 30th December the Tynemouth No. 1 life-boat, the Constance, went off, through a tremendous sea, in consequence of distress signals being shown from a large vessel, which proved to be the ship Lady Carter, of Liverpool. The wind was...
Sisters
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the afternoon of the 24th October, the Sisters fishing vessel, of Gorleston, was making for the harbour on the ebb tide, the wind at the time blowing a very heavy gale from the S.S.W., right out of the...
Conqueror
The smack, Conqueror, of and for Newburgh, from Sunderland, with coal, in attempting to enter the port at midnight on the 24th November, went ashore at the south side of the entrance to the harbour. A small steam-tug went to her assistance,...
Estafette
At daybreak on the 6th of November, the Life-boat was launched to the assistance of a ship on the West Gunfleet Sands, which was found to be the brigantine ISsta/ette, of Faversham, bound from the Tyne to Whitstable with coal. She was...
Regian
r, NOBTHITHBKBIIAND. — Oa the 4th November at 6 P.M. the assistant coxswain of the Life-boat saw the lights of a steamer upon the rocks at Hadstone, The crew of the Algernon and Eleanor Life-boat were at once summoned, horses were obtained,...