LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Glassalt
Shortly before noon on the 30th March, the Coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, stating that a steamer was ashore on the Sunk Sands. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing at the time, and the sea...
A Small Boat
At 3.45 P.M. on the i 15th December, a message was received j stating that a small boat containing five men had landed on the beach from a vessel which was ashore on the south part of the Brake Sands. The weather at the time was thick and...
Boy Reggie
At 2.40 P.M.
on 18th December the Coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Boy Reggie, of Lowestoft, was in dis- tress near the Holm Sands. A moderate S. W. breeze was blowing with a moderate sea, and as the crew...
Ethel Edith
During a fresh S. gale on 13th January, with a very rough sea, the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., that a ketch, which was found to be the Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a crew of four and bound with maize from London to Great...
The S.S. Galleon & Oscar Gorthon
The s.s. Castle Galleon, of Newcastle, while bound for Dieppe from Blyth laden with coal, came into collision with the Swedish steamer Oscar Gorthon during a dense fog at 9.20 on the morning of 2nd June, about three miles S.S.W. of the Cross...
Alexandrine
The Motor Life- boat, H. F. Bailey, put out at 11.5 A.M.
on the llth October, in hazy weather with a smooth sea and moderate S.W.
breeze, as the Haisborough Light-vessel had reported a vessel aground op....
Collingwood
On the evening of the 27th July the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht near Perch Rock was signalling for help, and the motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 9.10 P.M.
A strong west breeze was...
Estrellia
On the night of the 17th September a very strong gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very rough sea, rain squalls and a very high tide, and between midnight and eight o'clock the next morning there were three launches ; one by the...
The Dundee Sand Boat Oberon
The "motor life-boat Mona was launched at 2.10 A.M. on the 19th October, as flares had been seen from the Dundee sand-boat Oberon, which, with a crew of four, was at anchor just below Tay Bridge. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
The Sailing Barge Gladys
A FAMILY BARGE IN PERIL Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.7 in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a sailing barge was in difficulties and had asked for help three to four miles east-north- east of Strumblc...