LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Sir Richard

FISHGUABD, SOOTH WALES.—At about 10 o'clock on the morning of the 31st of October, signals of distress were shown by two schooners which, with other ves sels, had taken refuge in the bay on the previous day, being unable to go round St. David's Head on account of the stormy weather. The wind increased to a fresh gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a high sea, and as the vessels had anchored in a very exposed position, they were riding very heavily. The Fishguard No. 2 Life-boat, the Appin, went to the assistance of the two schooners which had signalled, and found that their crews were anxious to be brought ashore; three men were accordingly taken off the Charlotte Ann, of Portmadoc, bound from Newport to Portmadoc, with coal; and five men from the Demi Lass, of Aberdovey, bound from Portmadoc for London with a cargo of slates. After these men had been taken into the Life-boat, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Sir Richard, of Portmadoc, bound from London for Londonderry with a cargo of cement, having a crew of four men, and the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Cardigan, from Portmadoc to Cardiff with slates, and carrying a crew of three men. The Life-boat therefore went to these vessels, took their crews off, and landed the whole of the 15 men at about 1 P.M. Captain LA PEIMAUDATB, E.N., the Institution's Inspector of Life-boats for the District, who was then at Fishguard to inspect the Life-boat Station, went out in the Boat on this occasion..