LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running; so...

HARTLEPOOL.—At about 9 A.M. on the 5th October the brig Frannaes, of Brevig, Norway, was observed to be making for Hartlepool, in tow of a steam-tug, during an easterly gale and in a heavy sea. She grounded on Middleton Beach and filled with...

PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.

on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...

At 4.15 A.M. on 24th November a telephone message was- received stating that a trawler was ashore in Hawick Bay.

The Life-boat Arthur B. Dawes pro- ceeded to her, and by request took off one of the crew, but the remainder...

Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...

HUNSTANTON.—The Life-boat Licensed Victualler put off at noon on the 17th May in a rough sea and a strong N.N.W.

breeze, a vessel having been reported in distress. The vessel proved to be the brig Amelie, of Frederickstadt,...

ARBROATH.—While a strong gale was blowing from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow, on the 22nd January, twelve of the fishing yawls were returning, but it was feared they would be unable to enter the harbour. The Lifeboat William Souter...

DOUGLAS.—The Life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched, at 6.15 P.M. on the 7th January, to the assistance of the schooner Broughty Castle, of and for Portaferry from Dublin in ballast, which, having dragged her anchors in Douglas Bay,...