LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Day Star
SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
Monte Carmelo
At midnight on the 13th November, it then blowing a hard gale from W.S.W., signals indicating that a vessel was in distress were exhibited from the Gull Lightship, and the North Deal Life- boat Van Kook launched forthwith. She proceeded...
Canada Belle
The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat, •with...
Men of Courage
Books by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell and Commander H. B. Baothby.
Brave Men All. By Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O. (Hodder & Stoughton, 7s. 6d. net).
Spunyarn. By Commander H....
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Excellent
On the evening of the 9th October the steam drifter Excellent, of Buckie, bound to Yarmouth, with a crew of eleven, stranded outside the piers. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The drifter began to...
Vixen
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 6th August the Bude coastguard reported that a small yacht, with four men on board, had left Bude for Boscastle some hours earlier, but had not arrived, and that a light had been seen off Carnbeak. A...
Girl Ann
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1955, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that an ex-coastguardsman at Feorlin had reported that two ex- hausted men from the fishing boat Girl Ann, of Fraserburgh,...
Styvel
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.48 on the night of the 17th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Valentia radio station that the trawler Styvel, of Concarneau. France, which had a crew of ten, had wirelessed that she had broken down...
John Ewing
CARDIGAN.—While a strong N.W.
gale was blowing with heavy seas on the evening of the 24th March, the signalman fired the alarm signal indicating a vessel in distress in Cardigan Bay. The Lifeboat Lizzie and Charles Leigh...
Irene
On the evening of 9th January, 1924, the fishing smack Irene, of Lowestoft, ran ashore near the South Pier in a rough sea when homeward bound from the fishing-grounds with a load of fish. The Motor Life-boat went out and, with some...