LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Primo
MARCH 1ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 5 P.M. a message was received from Doctor Hall, the port medical officer, that a member of the Norwegian steamer Primo, of Oslo, had fractured his leg. The vessel was about two miles E.S.E. from the life-boat...
Redshank
JUNE 21ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.35 P . M . a message was received from the Shoeburyness Garrison that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Shoebury. Then a second message came that the yacht had...
Margaret
DECEMBER 1ST. - LLANDUDNO CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 3 P.M. the coast-guard reported a fishing boat in distress a mile or two west of Great Ormes Head, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched at 3.30 P...
Sarah Elizabeth
MAY 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon a strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls, and news was sent to the life-boat station that the open motor fishing coble Sarah Elizabeth...
Golden Arrow
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - RHYL, FLINT-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was learned from the coastguard that the local fishing smack Golden Arrow, which had gone out the previous evening with a crew of two, had not been seen since, and after...
Lauton
Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...
Velocity
PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, /while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of...
Hope
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—Early on the morning of 23rd August the dandy Hope, of St.
Ives, bound from Buncorn to Penryn with coal, having dragged her anchor and parted her chain, struck on the Dutchman Sandbank, opposite to Penmon,...
None
GIHVAN, AYRSHIRE.—A bright light was seen from Ailsa Craig on the evening of the 28th Jannary, and as it was understood to be a signal for help, the Sir Home Popham Life-boat was launched, and after a hard struggle of seven hours against an...
Marie, of Newport
On the 18th January, information was received that a dismasted vessel was dragging her anchors at Derby Haven, there being a very severe gale from S.W., and a heavy sea on.
The life-boat Commercial Traveller, No. 2, was...