LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helsingoe, of Elsinore
The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.
STEWARD, the...
Lifeboats In Action
Two saved in harbour dramaFaced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
Category: Services
Elizabeth, of Goole
SKEGNESS.—On the 14th April, at 8.30 A.M., the ketch Elizabeth, of Goole, while on a voyage from London to Gainsbro', was observed off this station in a disabled state, with signal of distress flying, and the crew in the rigging. A gale,...
Albion, of Teignmouth and Emma, of Barrow
— On the 20th February, the schooners Albion, of Teignmouth, and Emma, of Barrow, an- chored in Fishguard Bay. Being strangers, the vessels came to anchor rather too far out in the bay, and the wind having suddenly shifted to the N.N.E., and...
George, of Sunderland
On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...
Argo
BALLYCOTTON,CO. CORK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Ballycotton, making for Cork harbour, closehauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On the...
Ellen and Unda
CABDIGAK.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th September, the smack Ellen, of and from Milford, for Cardigan, with a cargo of limestones, anchored in Cardigan Bay, during a heavy gale from the N. W. by W.
and a high sea. She was...
The S.S. Cid
WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...
Glenbervie
COVBBACK, CORNWALL.—The first service at this Life-boat station, which was established in the year 1901, was performed on the 13th January last. The barque Glenbervie, of Glasgow, bound from London for Algoa Bay, with a general cargo,...
Speculation
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 20th Maythe brig Speculation, of Ohristiania, bound from Tayport for Bremen, with coal, was in tow of a steam-tug in a strong N.E.
wind and a choppy sea, when the towrope broke. Another hawser was...