LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Johanne
At 8.40 P.M. on the 1st November the Coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Goodwin Light- vessel stating that a vessel was ashore, and at about the same time another message was received by wireless tele- graph...
Theodora
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a N.E. gale, the Coastguard reported that a schooner was flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Queen Victoria was launched, but considerable difficulty was ex- perienced, and she...
The S.S. Glenpark
Shortly after noon on the 18th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress on the Holm Sands. The weather was fine at the time, with a light S.W. breeze blowing and a smooth sea, but, as it was feared that she would not be...
Rinovia
Stromness, Orkney.—During the night of the 9th—10th December, 1938, the Grimsby steam trawler Rinovia, homeward bound from fishing, and carrying a crew of nineteen, ran aground at Rusk Holm, Isle of Eday. Her signals of distress were seen by...
Royal
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 5.33 A.M. on the 12th October, 1939, the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands. The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell. At 5.57 A.M. the motor...
Nellie Crane
Just before midnight on the 28th November-the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Nellie Crane, of Barrow-in-Furness, had left Barrow at 11 A.M. on a fishing cruise, and had not since been heard of.
There were three...
The S.S. Charles Jose
At 11.50 P.M. on the 17th December the Dartmouth coastguards reported that a steamer was ashore on Slapton Sands, in Start Bay.
A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and visibility was...
Brereton, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
Betsy, of Portsmouth
Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd September, as the coastguard had reported red flares some distance W.S.W.
of the harbour....
Sunbeam
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 19th September the pleasure motor boat Sunbeam, of Cleethorpes, took a party of fourteen to Spurn. Shortly after she had left on the return journey the signal-station watchman reported that she...