LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lapwing
On the 21st May it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Lapwing, of Arklow, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of maize, was at anchor off the bar in a sinking condition, having struck on the Blackwater Bank.
S.S. British Dragoon
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S.S. British Dragoon, of London, a tanker of 9,909 tons, was ashore on Taylors Spit in the Queens Channel. At...
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OCTOBER 14TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A buoy had broken adrift with four boys on board, but as the tide ebbed they were able to get ashore. - Rewards, £7 3s..
Jean Edmonds
FEB. 22ND. - LERWICK, SHETLAND.
At 10.45 A.M. a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat....
Woolgast
The Caroline life-boat, stationed at North Berwick, N.B., rendered assistance on the occasion of the stranding of the brig Woolgast, of Woolgast, Prussia.
Normandy
NEWHAVEN AND EASTBOURNE. — The paddle-steamer Normandy, of and for Newhaven from Dieppe, with 130 passengers and a general cargo, stranded on a reef of rocks called the Ledge, opposite Holywell, near Eastbourne, in a dense fog, a light S....
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NEWHAVEN AND EASTBOURNE. — The paddle-steamer Normandy, of and for Newhaven from Dieppe, with 130 passengers and a general cargo, stranded on a reef of rocks called the Ledge, opposite Holywell, near Eastbourne, in a dense fog, a light S....
A Small Fishing Boat
During a moderate south-westerly gale and heavy sea on the afternoon of the 25th June, a small fishing-boat was observed about four miles to the east of Broadstairs with the crew making signals of distress by placing their jackets on oars....
Venture
Blyth, Northumberland. At 7.15 on the evening of the 19th May, 1961, during an exercise launch of the life- boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, it was noticed thatthe fishing vessel Venture had broken down south-east...
Taka-Maru
On the 3ist August, 1965, the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, rescued the crew of two of the yacht Taka-Maru of Rhyl. A full account of this service will appear in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT..