LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seventeenth of May
On the 3rd Feb., during an easterly gale, the Job Uindley Life-boat on this station was launched on observing the wreck of the Nor- wegian schooner Seventeenth of May, from which she was successful in saving 7 men..
Earl of Chatham
CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—At daybreak on the 5th of October a steam-tug entered the bay with a flag half-mast high and blowing her whistle. The Life-boat Ashtonian was launched, and was towed by the tug to the wreck of the ship Earl of Chatham, on...
Hope, of Beaumaris
On the 5th June, whilst the life-boat on this station was returning after her quarterly exercise, the crew observed the schooner Hope, of Beau- maris, riding at anchor in a very perilous position in Cymmuran Bay. There was a gale of wind...
M.F.V. 7
Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
Naiad, of Colchester
On the night of the 30th December, signals of distress were seen burning from a vessel off this place.
The wind was blowing fresh from the East, and a heavy sea running. The Parsee life- boat put off and assisted, after ten...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1892
Jan. 2.—Three men s-aved a man who had fallen overboard from the hrigantine Thomas, of Lowestoft, which was lying at anchor oS Lowestoft Harbour.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 5.—Six men saved four fishermen whose boat hnd been...
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Ellen, of Sunderland
At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as- certain if there was a...
Remedy, of Whistable
On the 17th November, the schooner Remedy, of Whitstable, was in a very dangerous position near the Admiralty Pier during a fearful gale of wind. The Royal Wiltshire life-boat put off, and re- mained by the vessel till she was out of...
The Cuban-Registered Refrigerated Carrier Gran Piedra
The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be...