LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Victor
POOLS, DORSET.—On the 9th January, at about 2.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from the B.S.E. and a high sea, signals being heard from the sandbanks, the Soys' Own, No. 2, Life-boat was launched, and towed by a steamer to the mouth of the...
Richard Cobden
During a whole gale of wind from the S.W. on the 10th February the Life-boat was launched at 5 P.M., and proceeded to the schooner Richard Cobden, of Swansea, bound from Briton Ferry to Freeport, U.S., with coal, which was flying a signal of...
Julia
The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....
Jubilee
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W....
Loch Ken
NORTH DEAL.—Signals having beenfired by the South Sand Head Lightvessel, the crew of the Mary Somervitte Life-boat were summoned on the morning of the 3rd February, and the boat was launched at about 7.10. The weather was thick at the time;...
Vivid
SCARBOROUGH.—The dandy Vivid, of Scarborough, bound from West Hartlepool for Woodbridge with coal, being caught by a gale from the E.S.E. and a very heavy sea off Plamborough Head, on the llth March, returned to Scarborough and attempted to...
Louisa
CLOVELLY.—During a strong gale from "W.N.W. and a heavy sea, on the 9th February, the ketch Louisa, of Bideford, bound to that port from Newport, with coal, was at anchor off Clovelly, when she showed a signal of distress. The Life-boat...
The S.S. Tergestea
The s.s. Tergestea G. T. 31, while bound from the Tyne to London with a cargo of coal, on the 16th October, struck a wreck close to Aldeburgh Napes. As she was badly damaged the captain at once made for Harwich, but before he could reach...
K. Ktistakis
At 9.35 A.M. on the 25th March the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the Good- wins, two miles W.S.W. of East Goodwin light-vessel. The motor life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 9.50 A.M. and...
Prince Consort
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direction of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...