LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
FLAMBOROUGH.—Thewindrose suddenly at about 9 A.M. on the 8th February, and continued to increase in force until, at about 10.30, it was blowing a fierce gale from the N.W., and there was a heavy sea.
As some of the fishing...
Coonatto, of London,
On the 21st February at 8.30 A.M.
this Life-boat again proceeded to Beachy Head to the assistance of the barque Coonatto, of London, which vessel, while on a voyage from Adelaide to London, with wool and copper, got ashore...
Pet
On the 7th November, at 5 A.M., the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat was launched, signals of distress having been shown by vessel on the Newcomb Sand. A moderate S.S. W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a rough sea. On arriving at the...
Delabole
CLOVELLY.—At 5.30 A.M. on the 15th of September, the Life-boat on this station was launched during a heavy le from the N., and rescued the crew, consisting of three men, from the smack Delabole, of Fowey, bound from Par to Swansea with a...
The S.S. Earl Percy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 23rd December, at 5.30 A.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the Hasborough Sand, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong W.N.W. wind and heavy sea. On arriving there, she found the s.s. Earl...
Minnie Coles
On the 14th January, at 5.30 A.M., during a moderate breeze from the N.N.E., with snow squalls, the Bradford Life-boat and harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out in response to signals of distress, and brought the schooner Minnie Coles, of...
Grasshopper
At about 10 A.M., on the 7th March, a message from Boarhills reported that a vessel was in a dangerous position about 4 miles east of St. Andrew's. The wind had fallen, but a very heavy sea was still running. The Ladies' Own...
The S.S. Robert Watson Boyd
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...
Agnes Cairns
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...
Hiram
GORLESTON.—On the 15th November at 2 A.M., while a fresh and increasing breeze was blowing from the N.N.E., with a rough sea and foggy weather, flares were seen in the direction of the North Sand.
The crew of the Gorleston...