LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.

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On the 28th November, during a strong N.W. wind and a very heavy sea, a brig was seen riding in broken water near the Goodwin Light vessel, with a flag flying at her main gaff. The Bradford Life-boat was manned, and left the harbour at 8 A.M...

TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — As the s.s. Robert Watson Boyd, of North Shields, coal laden for Constantinople, was going to sea at about 7 A.M. on the 22nd March, her steering gear broke down, she became unmanageable, and drifted on to the...

MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At 8 P.M. on the 15th February, while a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.S.E., the Life-boat Heywood was launched, it having been reported that a ship was stranded. On reaching the vessel, which had stranded...

WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — Rockets and guns having been fired from the Gunfleet lighthouse, intimating that a vessel was stranded on the sands, on the 9th April, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was launched at 9.45 P.M., and found the...

WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.

A strong gale was blowing...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Hearts of OaJc was launched at 12.7 p.m.

on the 17th March, signal guns having been heard in the direction of the Hasborough Sands apparently fired from the Would Light-Vessel. A dense fog...

PALUNO, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock on the morning of the, 21st July, during squally weather and a heavy eea, a barque was observed aground on the Hasborough Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat, the British Workman, was launched and proceeded to the...