LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
North-East England Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on I2th March, 1964, anxiety was felt for the fishing coble Providence which was at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a fresh east-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea, and it...
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Ceres, of Lyme
On the night of the 18th August, intelligence was received at Lynie Regis that a vessel was in distress, being anchored off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, 15 miles to the eastward of Lyme. At 4 A.M.
on the 19th, the...
Aglae (1)
CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...
Dare
CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat...
The Screw Steamer Altona
About 1.30 A.M. of the 23rd October, the night being stormy and peculiarly dark, the wind at east (dead on shore), the lights of a vessel on the Beacon Rocks, Eoker, to the north, of the entrance to Sunderland Harbour, were observed from the...
Peace
At 9 P.M.
on the 30th September distress rockets were seen in the direction of the Swin Middle light-vessel. The information was conveyed to the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14, and rockets were fired to...
Clio
At 9.15 P.M. on the 14th January the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Anna Maria Leesnw lights on Cairnbulge Briggs, about two miles from Fraserburgh. He immedi- ately ordered the launch of the Life-boat and proceeded to the vicinity, where he...
Fanny Grosfield
At about 11 A.M. on the 9th April, during a strong N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, the schooner Fanny Grosfield of Bai'row- in-Furness was seen drifting helplessly with her canvas all blown away, and a little later, when the vessel was...
Optima
The four- masted barque Optima, of Hamburg, stranded on the Haisborough Sands on the morning of the 19th January, and the guns fired by the Light-vessels brought several Life-boats and tugs in the vicinity to her assistance. The vessel was 2...
D. L. Harper
The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.