LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brighton
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—On the 17th March, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was called out by signal guns.
She was launched at 5 P.M., and was towed to the north-east part of the Gunfleet Sands where the steamer...
Mary Jane
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While a moderate gale from the S.S.W. was blowing and in thick weather, the schooner Mary Jane, of and for Eamsey from Whitehaven with a cargo of coal, was seen labouring heavily, having her sailstorn and rendered...
The S.S. Langdon (3)
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...
The Madryn
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Lady Ann
On the night of the 23rd August the steamer Lady Ann, of Sunderland, whilst bound from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Shipwash Sands.
At about 7.30 next morning the Coast- guard reported the...
Ellen & John and Margaret
At about 12.15 on the morning of the 21st Feb- ruary the schooner Ellen, of Arklow, when at anchor in the Caldy Roads, commenced to drift and was in danger of driving ashore. There was a whole gale blowing, veering from S.W. to W.N.W., with...
William and Alice
The schooner William and Alice, of Hull, whilst bound from that port to Grays with a cargo j of coal, stranded on the Cockle Sand on I the 31st August. The crew of the No.
; 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy were assembled and the...
Chariton
At about 1.30 A.M. on the 9th July, while the steam tug Helen Peele, stationed at Padstow, was returning to that place after her annual cruise, a vessel was sighted about two miles from her flying the " Not under control " signal....
The Mary Ann & The Margaret Garston
At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 26th February, during a whole S.S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel in the bay. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was at once ordered out, and...
Imogene & Harmony
Very heavy '.
seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was immediately ordered out and...