LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thyra
Shortly be- fore 3 A.M. on the 28th November, a telephone message was received from Thorpe Coastguard Station, stating that a steamer was ashore and in need of assistance. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was very promptly launched, and...
John Mikle
The steam trawler John Meikle, of North Shields, when homeward bound from fishing on the 13th October, stranded half a mile to the north of Newbiggin Point, in a very heavy fog, a moderate S.E. gale and rough sea. Information of the casualty...
The S.S. Haller
At 9 A.M. on the 1st October Coxswain John Haylett was informed that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Scroby Sands.
The No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched with the least possible delay and proceeded to the...
Hondeklip
On the 18th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the E.S.E.
with a rough sea, the brig Hondeklip, of Swansea, bound ftom Ghent for Dublin, was observed ashore on the north-east part of the Goodwin Sands. The...
Volusia
PORT PATRICK.—On the 2nd June, while a moderate wind was blowing from the E.N.E. and a rough sea was running, the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3, was launched at 10.30 A.M., with a view of carrying out the usual quarterly...
Nornen
BURNHAM.—On the morning of the 3rd March the barque Nornen, having drifted up the Channel from Lundy Island and having lost all her sails, went Aground on the Burrows Hats, in a whole gale from W.N.W., a heavy sea and thick weather, with...
Rock City
ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M....
Wendy
Appledore, Devon. — At 11.33 A.M.
on the 14th August the coastguard reported that a yacht one mile N.W.
from Fairway buoy was showing flares.
She was the auxiliary yacht Wendy, of Bristol...
The Sailing Boat Mary Anne
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.20 P.M. on the 6th September it was reported that a boy and a girl had left Lymington for Yarmouth some hours earlier in the sailing boat Mary Anne, but had not arrived. The honorary secretary, Captain A....
Consort
Troon, Ayrshire.—On the morning of the 27th March, 1938, a report was received from Irvine harbour that a fishing boat in Irvine bay was flying signals of distress. A strong N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough...