LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Whitburn Fishing Boats
On the 5th January, the Whitburn fishing-boats were caught in a gale, and had to leave their lines and run for the shore, which, with some difficulty, all of them but one succeeded in reaching. The crew of that boat had become utterly...
Jenny, of Whitby
The Thomas Wilson life-boat at Whitburn was the means of saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Jenny, of Whitby, which became a total wreck on Cape Kerr Point, off Whitburn ..
Mrs Pat Roche,
September 1996 Mrs Pat Roche, treasurer of the Whitburn guild from 1986 until her death..
Category: Obituaries
Rob Roy of Sunderland
On the night of the 12th January the steam-tug Hob Boy, of Sunderlaud, ran ashore on Whitburn rocks. On the alarm being given, the Whitburn life-boat was promptly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of 4 men and...
Crusader
WHITBURN.—On the 22nd November the Thomas Wilson Life-boat brought ashore eight men from the steam-tug Crusader, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Whitburn Rocks during foggy weather. The eight men had gone on board to try to get her...
The S.S. Inger
The s.s. Inger of Aalborg, whilst bound from that port to Sunderland, stranded on the 4th January, during a thick fog, to the south of Soutar Point. Information reached Whitburn about 8 P.M., and the Life- boat William and Charles was...
Theodor, of Riga
WHITBURN.—The William and Charles Life-boat was launched at about 4.30 P.M.
on the 5th October and rescued the crew, consisting of six men, from the schooner Theodor, of Riga, which stranded on Whitburn Stile during a S.E....
Jenny, of Whitby
On the night of the 30th November the same life-boat put off, during stormy weather, and brought safely ashore the crew of 6 men from the brig Jenny, of Whitby, which had struck on the rocks between Souter Point and Whitburn Steel, and soon...
A Motor Vessel (1)
MARCH 6TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
A motor vessel had gone ashore at Whitburn Point, but she was too far inshore for the life-boat to be able to get near her.- Rewards, £7 11s..
Eliza
WHITBURN.—On the 20th April, the brig Eliza, of Shoreham, bound from Stockholm to Sunderland with deals and iron, drove on shore a little to the north- ward of Whitburn Steel. Signals of dis- tress were shown, and the Coast-guard at once...