LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...

On the morning of the 25th August, during a S.S.W. gale and heavy sea, the barque Strathden, of Dundee, was seen to go ashore on the north-west end of the Middle Cross Sand. A yawl immediately proceeded to her assistance, and the master...

MONTROSE.—On the 27th of January, the No. 1 Life-boat Augusta rendered assistance to the barque Frida, of and for Christiania, coal laden, from Grangemouth, which had stranded on the Annat Bank in a strong W.S.W. gale and a rough sea. Five...

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather was hazy....

The s.s. Goole, of Goole, whilst bound on the 24th June from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the middle Hasboro sands during a dense fog, and two barges which she was towing broke adrift.

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Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 1st January a vessel was seen to be in distress. She was the cargo steamer Crackshot, of Newcastle, bound with a cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-one from the Tyne to London. She had stranded on a...

Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the morning of the 28th February it was reported that a small vessel was dragging her anchors. She was the ketch Roger Aubert, of Paimpol, bound with a cargo of coal, and a crew of five, from Swansea to St. Brieuc...

Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...