LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Augusta, of Bristol
On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Augusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of Bristol" j...
The Three-Masted Brigantine Emerald, of Liverpool
HOLYHEAD.—The three-masted brigantine Emerald, of Liverpool, was seen flying a signal of distress during a strong 8. gale and a rough sea on the morning of the 13th December. The Life-boat Thomas' Fielden was launched to the assistance...
Warkworth Castle
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 18th December, the brig Warkworth Castle, of Amble, bound to that port from Gloucester in ballast, droveashore in a snowstorm on Bondicar Bocks, near this Life-boat station. Her signals of...
General Cathcart
PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—The schooner, General Cathcart, of and for Ballywalter, from Maryport, coal laden, was observed in distress during a strong gale from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on 15th August. The crew of the Life-boat Civil...
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
The Finnish Motor Vessel Johanna Thorden (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey (1)
Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...
Rhodesia
During the afternoon of the 3rd December the Coxswain of the Life-boat Docea Chap- man was informed that an attempt was going to be made to save the steam trawler Rhodesia, of Grimsby, which had stranded five miles to the south of Withernsea...
The S.S. Eglantine
— Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 9th October, during a thick fog, information was received that a large steamer was ashore near the Cross Sand Light vessel. The No. I Life-boat was manned and proceeded in tow of a tug to the Cross Sand, where...
Sarah Ann
In a mode- rate gale with a heavy sea and a strong surf, on the 28th January, the ketch Sarah Ann, of Liverpool, bound from Port Colman to Beaumaris in ballast, became unmanageable, and the master, fearing he could not reach Holyhead in...