LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Sudsee
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the morning of the 10th April the Brake lightvessel, on the Goodwin Sands, reported, through the coastguard, that a steamer was aground about a mile and a half E.
half S. from her. A moderate...
Ivo Luc
Wick, Caithness-shire.—On the 10th February, 1938, the Belgian motor fishing vessel Ivo Luc, of Zeebrugge, had a breakdown of her engine while fishing off Clythness. She carried a crew of four. A fresh N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island some days earlier, arrived at Casla Bay on the mainland, with his chief...
Yacht Betsy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 1 P.M. on the 1st August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat which had been to a vessel off the Naze was on her way back showing distress signals. A freshening strong N.E. breeze was...
Comrade and Royal Empire
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 19th September, 1938, anxiety was felt for the safety of two local fishing cobles—the Comrade and the Royal Empire—which were at sea.
A dense fog had settled and there was a...
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Tamar
Salcombe, Devon.—At 9.7 on the night of the 4th of November, 1954, the Prawle Point coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen half a mile south-east of Prawle Point. At 9.20 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out. There...
The Scarweather Lightvessel
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At7.14 on the morning of the 4th of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man in the Scarweather lightvessel had collapsed and needed hospital treat- ment. At 7.29 the Superintendent of Trinity House at...
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FELL ON ROCKS Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.6 p.m. on igth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the rocks at the Dhoon. The lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station,...
Blanche
THREE HOURS OVERDUE Wells, Norfolk. At 11.22 a.m. on 2nd July, 1964, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a local fishing boat was three hours overdue from a fishing trip. The vessel could not be seen and he decided to launch to investigate...