LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Archon and The S.S. Treherbert
At 11.17 P.M. on the 6th September the coxswain received a message from the Ramsgate coastguard that two ships had been in collision off N.E. Spit buoy. They were the s.s.
Archon, of Syra, Greece, bound with a cargo of...
Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—About eight in the evening of the 20th of May, 1948, the local motor fishing vessel Galilee— which was out fishing and had in- tended staying at sea throughout the night—wirelessed that she would be returning to harbour....
The S.S. Brightside
Falmouth, Cornwall.—The motor lifeboat B.A.S.P. was launched at 4.35 A.M. on the 24th December, as a steamer had been heard blowing continuously on her whistle. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The lifeboat found the s.s....
Guisane
St. Helier, Jersey. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the assistant honorary secretary of a report received from St. Brelade's Bay that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties west of...
Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...
The Tilbury Ferry Edith
NO FOOD ON BOARD At 6.47 p.m. on loth November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the Tilbury ferry Edith, on passage from Harwich to Tilbury, was anchored near South Shoebury buoy because of thick fog without food, water or...
The S.S. Nord Est II
NOVEMBER 21ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that an S.O.S. call had been received from the S.S. Nord Est II, of Belfast, a former French vessel, which, laden with petrol for Dublin, was aground on the...
True Vine, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens...
Love Divine
The Life- boat James Gowland was launched at 10.45 A.M. on the 17th March, it having been reported that the fishing coble Love Divine, belonging to Staithes, was in great difficulties, having had her rudder carried away. A moderate N.N.E....
A Rowing Boat
22nd April. Two boys, brothers, went into the sea from a rowing boat to recover their lost paddles, but one got into difficulties, and while his brother was trying to help him their boat drifted away. Be- fore the life-boat could reach them...