LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Open Motor Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.15 on the morningofthe 18th of February, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Arnhem, coming from Holland, had sighted an open motor boat near Beach End buoy. The motor boat appeared to have broken down...
A Meteor Aircraft
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed...
Edwin
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the moming of the 2nd February it was reported by the Coastguard that lights had been seen on the Barnham Flats and that a vessel was in a dangerous position off Thornham.
A strong wind was blowing...
The S.S. Bramham
In a moderate N.W. breeze and a rough sea, about 5.40 P.M. on the 18th July, the watchman observed a large steamer on the N.W. part of the Cross Sand, and within a few minutes the Light-vessel on the sand fired signals to draw attention to...
Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Unity
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 1st October it was reported that the fishing coble Unity, of North Shields, which had left the Tyne early in the morning for the purpose of fishing, was missing. A strong E.N.E. gale having sprung up and the sea...
P. M. Willcock
.—At 3.10A.M.
on the 28th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore in Youghal Bay, about three miles to the S.W. of the station. A strong S.E.
gale prevailed at the time, with a very heavy...
Katie Marie, and Harriet and John
At 1.10 P.M. on the 6th May the Coastguard reported that four of the Palling fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a strong S.E. breeze, rough sea and heavy surf, were running towards Cromer, and trying to find a safe landing-place, the...
Silvia
Shortly before 11 A.M. on the 22nd December, a telephone message was received through the Coastguard from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel, stating that there was a schooner ashore on the Sand, with a flag flying at half-mast on the mizen.<...
Eleanor
The brigantine Eleanor, of Yarmouth, whilst bound from Seaham to Whitstable with a cargo of coal, was totally wrecked 011 the Sunk Sands on the 18th January.
The weather was hazy and cold, with a strong E.S.E. wind blowing...