LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mornington, Susannah and Iris
LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...
Franziska
PALLING.—During a strong wind from the N.E. with a heavy sea and foggy weather, the No. 2 Life-boat, British Workman, put off at 6 P.M. on the 15th of April to the assistance of the barque Franziska, of Porsgrund, Norway, bound from that...
Pass of Leny
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
Henry
SKEGNESS.—On the 8th March, during a strong N.W. gale and heavy sea, the schooner Henry, of Whitby, appeared to be in distress. The Skegness Life-boat Herbert Ingram at once went off to her, and placed 2 men on board, who assisted to get the...
Jonah
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were observed at midnight on the 8th May, from a vessel which had stranded on the Dogger Bank. The wind was blowing from the E.N.E. at the time, and the sea was rough. The Ethel JEveleen Life-boat promptly...
British Queen
PORT ISAAC, CORNWALL.—On the 26th March, at about 1 P.M., the schooner British Queen, of Wexford, bound from that port to Porthcawl in ballast, was observed to be in distress. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.W., and there was...
Ceres
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—The barque Ceres, of Eonne, bound from Cronstadt for Berwick with a cargo of battens, in trying to enter the harbour, on the evening of the 24th August, struck on the bar and was driven by the heavy seas on Spittal Beach,...
William Pitt
POOLE.—The Life-boat Manley Wood, stationed at the entrance of this harbour, put to sea on the 12th March, during a strong gale at S.W., to assist the crew of a vessel reported to be ashore near Bourne- mouth. The ketch William Pitt was...
Rug Making In Aid of the Institution
THE Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, has very kindly -offered, in addition to the work which she is doing for the Branch, to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip-mats in aid of the Institu- tion's...
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Mary J. Masson
The steam drifter Mary J. Masson, of Fraserburgh, stranded in thick weather on the Bondicar Rocks while homeward bound from Yarmouth, where she had been for the herring fishing, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched...