LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Napier
TYNEMOUTH.—At about 12.45 P.M. on the 25th May alarm guns were fired from the Spanish Battery indicating a vessel in distress. Crowds of people at once rushed to places from which the harbour could be seen, and observed that a steamer was...
Will Everard
Cromer, Norfolk.—The No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.25 A.M. on the 20th April, as the Haisborough coastguard had telephoned that a sailing barge was aground about one and a half miles south of Haisborough coastguard...
Inverclyde
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the 15th September the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported a vessel ashore on Cairnbulg Briggs making signals of distress.
The weather was very thick, the sea calm and the wind easterly. At 2...
Pilot Star
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Pilot Star (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Taffy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.45 P.M. on the 29th July, 1938, the nightwatchman at St. Sampson's Harbour received a message, flashed in morse from the Great Western Railwaysteamer Sambur, that shouts for help had been heard from a boat...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...
Richard Crofts
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1953, the Stornoway coastguards re- ported that the trawler Richard Crofts, of Milford Haven, was ashore between Coll and Tiree. A strong south-south- westerly...
The S.S. Ethiopia
PORT EYNOR, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—The s.s. Ethiopia, of London, in ballast from Hamburg for Fort Talbot, stranded at Oxwich Point in a very thick fog, a moderate S.W. breeze and a heavy ground swell, on the night of the 23rd February.
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Hodbarrow Miner and William Jones
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—The tremendous gale which visited the coasts of the United Kingdom on the night of the 26th February blew for several days with great violence, and caused much destruction of property and jeopardized many lives. The...