LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
La Jeune Maria Therese of Labourne, and Perseverance
on 2nd March, saved 6 men from the brig La Jeune Maria Therese, of Labourne, and took off 5 men from the barque Perseverance, of Scarborough, which vessels had been in collision..
Harriet
MILFORD.—A vessel having been reported to be in a dangerous position on a lee-shore close to St. Ann's Head, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.E., on the 16th January, the reserve Life-boat placed here while the station's...
Mary and Maria
HARWICH.—The Life-boat Springwell was launched at 4.30 P.M. on the 2nd March, and proceeded, in tow of the steam-tng Harwich, to the assistance of the schooner Mary and Maria, of and for Hull from London, laden with oil-cake, which had shown...
Frolic
On the 16th November the motor fishing boat Frolic, with two men on board, broke down off the Gouffre and began to drift towards the Hanois reef. Her signals were heard on shore and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria was launched at 6.12 P...
Ewy
8th December.
The Swedish steamer Ewy, of Seine, appeared to be in difficulties, but weathered the storm.—Rewards, £15.
Giving Instead of Receiving
THE Institution has received a gift from a Liverpool man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday by asking his friends, instead of buying him presents, to give him money for the life-boat service..
Category: Donations
A Barge
23rd Feb- ruary. A barge grounded on the Gunfleet, but a motor boat which had her in tow took off the only man on board.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
A Ballon
7th August. A balloon engaged on film work made a descent into the sea, but as a motor boat was in attendance, the life-boat was not required.—Rewards, £3 16s..
A Motor Fishing Boat Olive
On the afternoon of the 8th September a message was received from the coast- guard, through the wireless station, that a motor fishing boat was aground just south of St. Mary's Island, which is about three miles north of Culler- coats. A...
Victa, of London
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 18th July the coastguard reported that a sailing barge about three miles S.W. by S. of Clacton pier had her topsail and foresail split. She was the Victa, of London, with a crew of two and a cargo of sand. A...