Tyne saves crew of fjve from stranded fishing vessel Fraserburgh's Tyne class lifeboat City of Edinburgh was involved in a service on 11 September 1995 which although fairly short in duration was commended by the divisional inspector of...
On the 12th June the brig Ann, of Blyth, parted her cables in a S.E. gale, in Alnmouth Bay, and was driven ashore. The small four-oared self-righting life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly launched in a heavy...
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
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On the 26th October, the smack Margaret Davis, of Girvan, was totally wrecked on a reef of boulder-stones, a short distance south of the harbour of that place, during a gale of wind. The crew expected to get her off, but the gale increas-...
On the 10th December, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brigantine Ino, of West Hartlepool, was observed making for the shore in an apparently sinking state.
It subsequently appeared that she had been in collision with...
The brig Catherina Regina, of Riga, went ashore in Druridge Bay during very stormy weather on the morning of the 7th December. On information of the occurrence being received at the Life-boat Station, the boat was conveyed on her carriage to...
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens saved the crew of three hands of the barge Challenge, of Weymouth, during a strong N.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 12th April. The barge, whilst bound from Portland to London with a cargo...
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great...
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WINTERTON. — The full - rigged ship Galatea, of Greenock, bound from Hamburg to Sydney with a general cargo, stranded on Hammond's KnolJ, in a fresh N.E. breeze, a rough sea and thick weather, on the 27th June. The lookout man at...