LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Naval Barge 390
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 6 A.M. the naval barge 390 was leaving harbour when she stranded across the life-boat slipway. A strong southerly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. As the position...
John Davies and Maggie Brocklebank
LITTLEHAVEN.—The Friend Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of two schooners, the John Davies, of Carnarvon, bound from Portmadoc for Bridgewater with a cargo of slates, and the Maggie Brocklebank, of Barrow, bound from Liverpool for...
Miss Hughes
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Miss Hughes, of and from Carnarvon, laden with slate for London, showed signals of distress, as she was dragging her anchors and drifting towards the rocks at Nevin Point, in a moderate gale from N.'W. and...
The S.S. Terlings
SEAHAM, Co. DURHAM.—At 6.30 A.M.
on the 6th May the s.s. Terlings, of London, bound from Bochester for Seaham, in ballast, in approaching the harbour during a fog went too far to the southward, struck the rocks and filled....
The Four Brothers
The ' Life-boat Martha was launched at | 5.30 P.M. to assist the salmon coble, The [ Four Brothers, which was in distress j opposite the village. The boat carried | three hands, who belonged to the Life-! boat crew. When the coble put to...
Dragon
DUNGENESS.—The Coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.B., being informed by the Coastguard on the morning of the 8th January that a steamer was stranded, the crew were summoned and at 5.30 the * Life-boat was launched.
The wind...
Fingal
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.-—During the heavy westerly gale and rough sea on the 27th February, the Coxswain of the steam Life-boat Queen received a message that a vessel had foundered off North Wall and that the crew had taken refuge in the...
Two Fishing Cobles (1)
When the cobles belonging to Filey were returning from the fishing grounds on the 7th April they were overtaken by snow-storms and a strong north-easterly wind, caus- ing a very rough sea in the tideway at the Brigg End. Great anxiety was...
Kingfisher
At 11.30 A.M. on llth March, during a moderate E.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, it was decided to launch the Motor Life- boat Herbert Joy II. as two motor cobles were out crab fishing. The Life-boat found one of the cobles—the Kingfisher, of...
Pilot Me (1)
— The Whitby motor fishing boat Pilot Me was unable to make her home port on the morning of 8th April owing to a moderate northerly gale and very rough sea. She decided to run for Scarborough, and this information having been passed on by...