MARCH 31ST. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 10.5 A.M. a message was received from the Island of Coll that a vessel was on the rocks a mile from Arinagour. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Ho ! build the Life-boat, heart and hand ; Quick ! ake the many- voiced command ! The black-winged tempest downward dips, Like death, on night-bewildered ships.
Let wrinkled age and valiant youth Close rib it as with ribs...
Category: Poetry
On the night of April 12th, signals of distress were ob- served on the North Gare Sand, at the en- trance to the River Tees, the wind from the S.E. with a high sea on. The Seaton Carew life-boat was at once launched and taken to the spot;...
LOWESTOFT.—Intelligence having been received that two steamers had been in collision in the north part of Stanford Channel, The Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat put off at 9.15 A.M., on the' 10th September, and reached the vessels as they...
GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.
—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from...
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
On. the 4th November, at 4 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat Oovent Garden put off, signals of distress having been shown from the North Scroby Sand, and the light ships continually firing guns and rockets, during a strong gale from the E.S.E., and...
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—On the 18th January a heavy N.E. gale was experienced here, accompanied by snow. During the height of the storm the crew of the Life-boat Exeter, in response to signals, launched their boat to the help1 of the crew of a...
SKERRIES, Co. DUBLIN.—On the 14th October the schooner William, of Dublin, bound from Swansea to Ardrossan with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of five men, sought shelter in Skerries Bay from stress of weather, the wind at the time...
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WlGHT.—The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched at about 5.30 P.M. on the 15th February, the coxswain, while on the cliff, having observed a large barque strike on the Eastern Ledge at Atherfield and immediately swing...