LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Plover
On the 5th June, at 4 A.M., during squally weather, a vessel was observed ashore on Horsey Beach. The No. 1 Life- boat, the Parses, proceeded to her through a heavy sea, and found she was the brig Golden Plover, of Sunderland, on a voyage...
Jane Louisa
HOLYHEAD.—At 12.30 P.M. on the 16th November, the schooner Jane Louisa, of Londonderry, bound from Liverpool to Dublin with a cargo of coal, was seen in distress outside the breakwater, during a heavy N. gale and very high sea. The Life-boat...
The Time
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—Signals of distress were seen flying from a ketch three miles N.E. of Winterton, during a severe storm and a very heavy sea, at about 2.30 P.M. on the 14th October. The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat, the Husband, proceeded to...
Lydia
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the 23rd October, at about 9 A.M., the barque Lydia, of Grrimstad, bound from Arendal to Cardiff with pit props, stranded on Burnham Plats. The Lily Bird Life-boat proceeded to her, and found that she had 8 feet of...
Zephyr
WINTERTON. — The ketch Zephyr, of Boston, laden with logwood from London for Goole, was sighted, with foremast broken, while a strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 17th April. The No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched...
Vibelia
CHAPEL, LINCOLNSHIRE.—While a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. to N.E. anda heavy sea was running, on the 8th of April, the schooner Vibelia, of and from Grimstadt for Boston, Lincolnshire, with a cargo of pit-poles and lumber, stranded...
The Motor Fishing Coble Brittania
At eight in the morning of 20th October the No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was launched in a moderate, but increasing, N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, as the motor fishing coble Brittania, of Flamborough, had not...
A Small Boat Named Bee
At about 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, information was received from a fisher- man that a small boat, with two men, had been seen drifting helplessly out to sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...
Fishing Cobles
While fourteen of' the fishing-cobles belonging to the port were out fishing on the morning of the 2nd December a strong S. gale suddenly sprang up and blew with great violence. The boats at once made for home, but as their lauding was...
James
The Life-boat Barbara Fleming was launched at 10 A.M. on the 18th March during a whole northerly gale and very rough sea, in answer to distress signals in Porthdinllaen Bay. The vessel was the ketch James, of Carnarvon, bound from Abersoch...