LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small War Department Motor Launch Cypress
NOVEMBER 6TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.56 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported that a small War Department motor launch, with a crew of three, had broken down and was making distress signals east of Start Point...
Shima
On the evening of the 3rd September the coastguard at Kilchoman reported that a steamer was in distress half a mile west of Colonsay. A strong west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. The new motor life-boat Charlotte...
Two Vessels
AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
Don
. At 5.30 A.M., OB the 14th February, the schooner Don, of Aberdeen, bound to Sunderland with chalk, stranded on the South Barber Sand during a strong S.
wind and a heavy sea. The No. 2 Lifeboat promptly went to her...
Maxim
"While a whole gale was blowing from S.W. on the 28th March, signals of distress were shown by the brigantine Maxim, of and from Drogheda for Liverpool, in ballast, which had stranded about three hundred yards south of the harbour. She...
Called to a Man Overboard from a 14' Boat Offtunstall on April 18 In Moderate to Fresh North-Easterly Breezes and Rough Sea Withernsea Crew Members and Shore H
Called to a man overboard from a 14' boat offTunstall on April 18 in moderate to fresh north-easterly breezes and rough sea, Withernsea crew members and shore helpers rushed the ILB down to the surf.
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Category: Photographs
Friends, of Lyne
At daylight on the 2nd Nov., during a very heavy gale, the schooner Friends, of Lynn, parted from her anchor and was driven ashore, three miles south of Bridlington Harbour. The Brid- lington life-boat was quickly conveyed on her...
A Small Steamer
Shortly after noon on the 13th January infor- mation was received from Cresswell, through the Blyth Coastguard, that a small steamer was lying about one mile east of Cresswell broadside on to the sea and drifting. She was not showing signals...
A Walrus Aeroplane
JANUARY 27TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. A Walrus aeroplane had been reported down on the sea but she got away safely and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £22.
Johannesburg
At 6.30 A.M. on 8th February, the steam trawler Johannesburg, of Scarborough, ran ashore on the north side of Filey Brigg. She had a crew of nine on board. Information was given by the Coastguard and the Filey Pulling and Sailing Life-boat...