LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 8th October, the schooner Haleswell, of Bridgwater, went ashore outside the Harry Furlongs Bocks, daring a fog. She was observed at 7 A.M., and a boat came ashore from her with two of her crew to ask for the...

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...

On the night of the 13th April the s.s. Hamilton, of Stranraer, when about to enter Port- rush Harbour, in. a strong westerly gale, was caught by the tide and sea and driven on to the rocks. Owing to the heavy sea running at the foot of the...

While a whole gale from S.E. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 14th January, signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the " Middle Ridge," near Appledore. The Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald...

The steamer G.K.C., of Noirmontiers, stranded on the Doom Bar on the 4th May. The schooner was first observed making for the harbour at 8.45 A.M., and, after rounding Stepper Point, she struck the Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Arab was promptly...

On the 15th April the South Shields coast- guard reported that a steamer was ashore at the end of the South pier. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan...

To Mr. GEORGE COCKSHOTT, Honorary Secre- tary of the Southport Branch, a Gold Pendant and a Kecord of Thanks, in recog- nition of his long services in connexion with the Life-boat Station at Southport, which has now been closed.

CHAPTER I.

A WRECK OFT MARGATE.

THE night of Sunday, the 12th of February, in the present year, was what sailors call a very dirty night. Heavy masses of clouds skirted the horizon as the sun get; and,...