LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 5.40 P.M. on 15th May the Ventnor Coastguard telephoned Brooke and Yarmouth that the s.s. Roumelian, of Liverpool, bound laden from London to Alexandria, had been in collision with the s.s. St. Nazaire about twenty- four miles S.E. by E....

The s.s. Goole, of Goole, whilst bound on the 24th June from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the middle Hasboro sands during a dense fog, and two barges which she was towing broke adrift.

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On the 10th June the fishing lugger Surprise, of Lowestoft, which had put to sea the previous day, had not returned, and, as there was a moderate S.W. gale blowing with a rough sea, it was considered advisable to make a search for...

Selsey, Sussex.—At about 9.45 A.M.

on the 25th August two men fishing two miles S.W. of Selsey Bill saw signals coming from the motor yacht Sonia, of LittJehampton, which was at anchor near-by. They went to her and found...

Mumbles, Glamorganshire, and Tenby , Pembrokeshire.—Some time after mid- night on the 18th-19th December the steamer Ben Blanche, of Ramsey, ran on the rocks to the west of Port Eynon Head. She was bqund from Dundoon, in Northern Ireland, to...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1955, the Orlock coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run on the rocks a hun- dred yards south of Maidens. At 6.50 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put...

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.19 on the night of the 12th of July, 1956, a representative of Messrs. MacBrayne Ltd., Port Ellen, telephoned to say that a French trawler was in diffi- culties off Ardbeg. Conflicting in- formation had been...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At...