LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chrysea
At 1.10 A.M.
on the 24th November the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Kilnsea. The sea was smooth, but a fog had come down, and it was de- cided to send out the...
Fishing Boats
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
Shahjehan
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.27 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1955,the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Galloper light- vessel had reported that a motor yacht two miles north-east of the light- vessel had fired red...
Eva May
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.
board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...
A Naval Aeroplane (1)
- Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.13 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard, that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
Stromness
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.—4th Octo- ber, 1939. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life- boat Robert and Ellen...
The Kanwara
ALONE FROM SALCOMBE TO SKYE Appledore, Devon.—At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles west-south-west of the Westward Ho look-out.] The motor life-boat...
Idler
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.45 on the night of the 1st of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the sailing yacht Idler was in difficulties a mile off Burton Brad- stock, and at 10.0 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland left...
The Hopper No. 19
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
The S.S. Sydenham and the S.S. Ask
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 4.32 on the morning of the 26th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned to say the S.S. Sydenham had reported that a vessel was ashore on the Haisboro' Sands, eighteen miles east-by-south of Cromer, and at five...