LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary
The schooner Centenary, of Liverpool, bound from Coleraine to Glenarm, anchored in Skerries Boads at 8 A.M. on Saturday, the 30th September, during a very strong gale of wind. At 5.30 on the following evening she showed signals of distress...
Union
At 7 P.M. on the 29th October the •watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the Middle Binks. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Union, of Portsmouth. She was...
A Submarine
On the 5th February, when a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, a wireless message was received? stating that a vessel was ashore on the South Scroby Sands.
This happened at 5.45 A.M., and within twenty minutes the No. 1...
The S.S. Leda
The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched to the assistance of the s.s. Leda, of Amster- dam, which had stranded on the Good- win Sands, on the 4th November.
When the Life-boat reached the vessel, the Coxswain inquired if...
Marthe Roux
The Life-boat Robert and Susan was called out about 6.30 A.M. on the 25th Feb- ruary, to the assistance of the Barque Marthe Boux, of Havre, which had stranded on some dangerous rocks about three-quarters of a mile to the south of Newbiggin;...
A Small Boat Named Ruby
On the morning of the 30th January the fishing fleet of about thirty boats went out of harbour between 5 and 7 o'clock. At that time the weather was fine and the sea was comparatively smooth. At about 9 o'clock the sea suddenly rose...
Susan
On the afternoon of the 22nd August fourteen local fishing cobles were at sea outside the harbour entrance. A moderate N.E.
breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough and breaking owing to a very strong outflow from the...
Dart
On 17th August last the Hoylake Life-boat was launched, late at night, to the yacht Dart, anchored off Hilbre.
A gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, the weather showed every sign of getting worse; and the yacht, unable to...
Renown
NEW BRIGHTON.—At 2.30 P.M., on the 19th July, intelligence having been received that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the No. 2 Life-boat Henry Richardson put off, in tow of the steam-tugBrilliant Star, and found the three-masted...
The S.S. Langdon
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...