LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolute
A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of distress as the three men...
Haddock Boats
The Life-boat Theophilus Sidney Echalaz was launched at 1 P.M. on the 18th March for the safety of seven crab boats and three haddock boats, as there was a very strong gale blowing from S.E., and there was also a heavy sea running. As the...
Raymond
At 1.45 P.M. on the 23rd December, information was received that a vessel was ashore on the Margate Sands, and the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched. On arriving at the Sands, I the...
Fishing Boats
.— On the 29th November a strong S.S.E. breeze sprang up, bringing with it a very heavy sea.
At the time seven of the fishing boats belonging to Montrose were at sea, and the thirty men forming their crews were in jeopardy....
Heather Belle
When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.
Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...
Red Jacket and Ebenezer
On the 31st January, two rockets, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required, were fired from Scurdyness.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert Henderson was launched at 2.45 P.M., and rendered assistance to the...
M.K.D.
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having reported a vessel ashore at Waxham on the 16th March, the No. 1 Lifeboat Good Hope was taken on her transporting carriage along the shore to the scene of the disaster. A strong gale was blowing from...
Fishing Cobles
The No. 1 motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 10.30 A.M., on the 4th November, as conditions were bad and some of the local boats and cobles were at sea. A moderate east breeze was blowing, a rough sea was rolling into the...
Eagle
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boat Eagle put out at 1 P.M. on the 16th May to haul crab and lobster pots. After she had been gone for about an hour the sea got very rough, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at...
A Yacht
Margate, Kent.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 3rd August the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on Margate Sand west of the North Sand Beacon. The sea was choppy, with a strong westerly wind. At 8.40 A.M.
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