LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frederik and Steam Trawler Ben Aden
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M. on the 8th August, 1938, information was received that a ship was ashore on Whitburn Steel. Later it was reported that a trawler also was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light northerly breeze. It was...
Tranio
At 8.47 P.M. on the 13th January, the Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles north-east of the station. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched and found that the vessel was the steam...
Saint Ronan
Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...
Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 9.36 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1960, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that as the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was still at sea in a fresh north-easterly wind he was going to the north...
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Dover, Kent.—At 6.35 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1952, the police reported that six boys were trapped by the tide between Fan Bay and St.
Margaret's, and at 8.50 the life-boat Thomas Markby, on temporary duty at...
Beau Geste
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 10.50 on the night of the 3rd of July, 1952, the Foreland coastguard reported a flare, and a few minutes later stated that a vessel to the south had made an S O S signal. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at...
Moya
Dungeness, Kent.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1953, the Rye harbourmaster reported through the Fairlight coastguard that a yacht one mile east of Rye harbour was making distress signals. At 6.30 the life-boat Charles...
The Sand Boat Wisbech
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—About 10.15 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957, a telephone message was received from the harbour master at Dundee that a resident in Invergourie had reported a vessel burning flares oppo- site Balmarino above...
Daphne
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steamer Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor boat named Daphne, with three men aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of...
Windsor Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1957, the Cromer coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Windsor Rose was making for Sheringham in very bad weather. At 7.42 the life-boat Foresters Centenary was...