LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brighter Dawn
DECEMBER 7TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At daybreak five motor fishing cobles put out lobster fishing. They had not been away very long when the southerly wind increased and the seas became heavy. Two of the cobles got...
Two Rubber Dinghies
MAY 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.38 in the evening the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies, with five people on board, which had put out from Jaywick, were drifting helplessly three miles to the...
Pactolus
JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a...
Three Fishing Drifters and The Scottish Drifter Coreopsis
NOVEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 11.17 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard reported a fishing drifter ashore a quarter of a mile south of the look-out. A light southsouth- east breeze was blowing and the sea was...
The S.S. Stephen W. Kearny, of San Francisco
NOVEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. A message from the S.S. Stephen W. Kearny, of San Francisco, was received through the coastguard.
It said that she would be anchoring in The Downs at two o’clock that afternoon and had asked...
The S.S. Eminence, of Rochester
NOVEMBER 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 7.25 at night a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that the S.S.
Eminence, of Rochester, had anchored in Torbay. She had a man on board with an injured...
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Providentia, of Svelvig
Again, on the 24th March, the same life-boat went off to the rescue of the crew of the brig Prtmdentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen. In running for the harbour, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the vessel had struck on the rocks near the...
Columbine of Wexford
This life-boat was also taken out on the 5th December to the schooner Columbine, of Wexford, which in running for Hantoon Channel, the entrance to Wexford Harbour, while the wind was blowing hard from the east, and the sea running high,...
Kopenes
SEPT. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 8.45 P.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M...