LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Island
HOLYHEAD.—During a heavy gale from the W., at 9 A.M. on the 14th October, signals of distress were reported to have been shown by two or three vessels anchored in dangerous positions in the bay. The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched, but...
Ross
On the 9th December the barque Ross, of Arendal, Norway, bound from Christiania to Santander with a cargo of wood, having encountered the full fury of a gale in the North Sea for a whole week, during which period her crew had suffered great...
Happy Return
NEWHAVEN.—At 2 P.M. on1 the 24th May, the Michael Henry Life-boat was launched to the aid of launched to the aid of the dandy Happy Return, of Newhaven. The vessel was loaded with chalk, which had been taken from the beach, when she was...
Morning Star
GORLESTON.—On the 9th October, at about 2 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, Leicester, was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the dandy Morning Star, of Great Yarmouth, on a fishing voyage with a crew of six men, which had stranded on the...
Prudence of Watchet
The schooner Prudence, of Watchet, while attempting to make the port of Burnham too soon on the tide, during a strong wind from W.N.W., and in a heavy sea, on the 21st September, look the ground on the south side of the channel, then dragged...
Ethel
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th January a telephone message was re- ceived from Newcastle stating that a schooner had been sighted to the south- westward drifting in an apparently disabled condition. A look-out was kept and...
Margaret Jane
On the 13th October, a steamer was seen dragging her anchors in a whole gale and a rough sea. She collided with the schooner Margaret Jane, of Bangor, and drove across the bows of the Trinitysteamer Stella. In response to signals of distress...
Arctic
Daring very thick weather, on the 23rd March, intelligence was received that a fishing-boat was aground on the N. side of the bar. A moderate gale was blowing from S.S.W., and the sea was rough. At 4.30 P.M., the Life-boat Andrew Pickard...
None
Two boys, in search of driftwood, crossed a ridge of rocks between the mainland and Scottle Holm, about two miles to the North of Lerwick, on 7th November, and were cut off by the rising tide. Their where- abouts was discovered about nine at...
The Second Hen Island Challenge Race
The second Hen Island Challenge Race, for home-built craft which have cost no more than £25 and which have never before put to sea, was sailed in Northern Ireland last October; Portaferry D class inflatable lifeboat acted as one of the... - View image in PDF
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