LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rival
PALLING.—Soon after midnight on the 28th May, while a strong N.N.E. wind was blowing and a heavy sea running,a vessel was reported to have stranded on the beach at Waxham, two and a half miles southward of the Falling Life-boat station. The...
The S.S. Rannoch
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow...
San Toy
Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.
on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on...
The R.A.F. Flying-Boat Walrus L.2237
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.42 P.M.
on the 29th September, 1938. the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea and was firing rockets for help. After calling out the life-boat, the coastguard, in view of...
Eilae
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1954. the coxswain reported that four people had left Rock Ferry for a cruise in the 20-feet yacht Eilae about 1.45 and were now overdue. The Formby coastguard reported...
Edford
Plymouth, Devon.—On the after- noon of the 24th of June, 1950, an explosion, believed to have been caused by an oil stove, set fire to the yacht Edford, of Dartmouth, oft Blackstone Point. A man and .his wife were on board. The woman...
Serenity
Caister, Norfolk.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of February, 1952, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone aground off Waxham, and at 10.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was calm, with a fresh...
Roma
Selsey, Sussex.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 9th April the coastguard reported that a motor boat appeared to have broken down two miles S.E. of the coastguard look-out and was drifting west. She was not making signals of distress. At 5.47 P.M. she...
A Motor Boat
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—During the morning of the 16th October, 1938, nine Sea Scouts, from a Borstal Institution, with a scoutmaster, left Hunstanton in their motor boat for Boston. Soon afterwards the boat's engine broke down and the...
The S.S. Dunleith
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—-At 7.15 A.M. on the 25th November, 1938, the life-boat assistant motor mechanic saw a vessel aground on Newcombe Sands. There was a heavy swell on the sands, and the sea was moderate, with a freshening S.S.E. wind. The...