LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rose of England (1)
Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...
Fishing Boats
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About a quarter to five in the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had reported five people marooned on a sandbank between Naze Point and Stone Banks Buoy. The motor...
Rait Castle
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1948, the harbour master reported a telephone message from the Post Office at Barmston that a vessel was ashore, and the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was...
Farndale
Cromer, Norfolk.—-At 6.5 in the even- ing of the 26th of January, 1949, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore 200 yards south of Bacton, and the No. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched at 6.25. There was dense fog, but the southerly...
The S.S. Beltoy
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 24th of February, 1949, the medical officer reported that a wireless message had been received from the S.S. Beltoy, of Larne, lying off Keiss Harbour, Sinclair Bay, that her...
Capella
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 10.20 on the night of the 4th of March, 1949, the coastguard asked that the life-boat crew should stand by as a vessel appeared to be in distress to the north of Ramsey.
At 10.50 they reported that...
The S.S. P.L.M. 17
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 1.8 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be aground on the New- combe Sands. Her signals by lamp could not be read, so the life-boat Michael Stephens was...
Damia B
Blyth, Northumberland.— At 4.51 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard reported that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties to the south of the entrance to Blyth Har- bour. She had made no distress signal, but as it...
Susan Vittery
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard reported that there appeared to be a three- masted schooner on the revetment, abreast of C.13 buoy River...
The Arimithea
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3 P.M. on the 28th February the coastguard reported that a steam drifter, in tow of another drifter and a tug, had parted her towing hawser and was drifting rapidly on to North...