LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Collier
APRIL 3RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. A collier was reported to have been machine-gunned by German aeroplanes, but could not be found. News was received later that a collier had passed, going west, without lights, and the life-boat was...
An Aeroplane (31)
MARCH 11TH. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16...
A Schooner
OCTOBER 2 0TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. A schooner had appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather, but she was found to be anchored with her sails down and not in need of help. - Rewards, £10 19s..
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FEBRUARY 16TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A Halifax bombing aeroplane had been reported in difficulties and her crew were said to have baled out, but no survivors could be found in the sea. - Rewards, £34 14s. 6d..
Hannah, of Drobak
At day- break on the llth November, the barque Hannah of Drobak, Norway, drifted out of the Humber, during a strong wind from the N.W., accompanied by snow and sleet, the weather having been very stormy during the night. Eventually the...
Nathaneli
NEW BRIGHTON.—Bockets were fired from Blundle Sands and New Brighton Coastguard stations on the evening of the 3rd December, denoting that a vessel was in danger, and that the services of the Life-boat were required. The Willie and Arthur...
Barclay
TYRELLA.—The schooner Barclay, of Goole, bound from London to Ayr, stranded in DiMidrma Bay, d-niing thick stormy weather, at 7 P.M. on the 27th of February. As soon as the vessel was observed, the crew of The Memorial Life-boat were...
Esther Ann
On the following night, while the schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of wheat, was attempting to beat up Dublin river during rough threatening weather, her top-sail split as she was passing the North...
Charles Challoner
FLEET WOOD.—On the night of the 18th September the barque Charles Ohattoner, of Fleetwood, bound for that port from Quebec, with timber, was endeavouring to make the harbour in tow of a steam-tug; but the steamer was not sufficiently...
Two Salmon Cobles
At 3.45 P.M. on the 8th April information was received that two salmon cobles were in great danger owing to the wind having shifted from W. to N., and increased to a hurricane, causing the sea to break right over them. The No. 1 Life-boat,...