LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOKD.—Signals were shown by the Tuskar Lighthouse for the steamer to proceed to her, on the 29th August. A messenger was at once sent to Wexford, but the tender could not get over the bar, owing to the heavy...
Fairy Glen
Guns and rockets were fired from the Gull and East Goodwin light-vessels at 5 A.M. on the 23rd March, during a strong S.W. wind and a heavy sea. The Bradford Life-boat was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid, and found the schooner Fairy...
Gipsy Queen
LIZARD.—The schooner Gipsy Queen, of Padstow, bound from London for Liverpool, with cement, struck on Mynheer Rocks during a moderate gale from the N.E. on the evening of the 13th March, and showed signals of distress. The Lifeboat Edmund...
Queen of the Isles
GORLESTON.—In response to signals of distress on the 15th October the Mark Lane Life-boat was launched at about 7.30 P.M., and found they had been shown by the three-masted schooner Queen of the Isles, of Wick, bound from. Tonsberg, Norway...
Catherine
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...
Vondel
FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
Bluff
The steamer Bluff, of Durban, bound from Grimsby to South Africa, where she was intended for the fishing trade, stranded on the Cross R'idge, in hazy weather, on the 5th March, and at 5.50 the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to...
Laura Belle
The Coast- guard -watchman observed flares from a vessel at 3.30 A.M. on the llth March about a quarter of a mile to the south- ward. He at once informed the Cox- swain of the Life-boat and it was decided to launch the No. 1 Bolton. There...
The S.S. Bavaria
The s.s. Bavaria, of Stettin, whilst bound' to the Tyne in ballast, stranded on the rocks half a mile to the north of New- biggin early on the morning of the 24th March. The casualty was owing, it is believed, to a light at a coal pit...