LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British Empress
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the Lowestoft berthing master reported that the master of the tanker British Empress, of London, which was lying off the Gorton lightvessel, had asked for the Port Medical...
Lassiette
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 10th of June, 1956, the honorary secretary saw a yacht in distress three miles south of the life- boat station. At 3.48 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched in a very...
Parthenia
At 7.20 A.M., on the 23rd September, the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a strong W.N.W. wind and a heavy sea to a schooner riding at the entrance to the Cockle Gat. The Boat sailed to the Gat, and was then taken in tow by the steamtug...
Lily
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—At about 4 P.M. on Saturday, the 21st July, the steamer Lily, of Liverpool, which had left that port in the morning with six hundred and twenty-eight passengers for Douglas, ran aground on the rocks at Onchan Harbour,...
Rhodesia
During the afternoon of the 3rd December the Coxswain of the Life-boat Docea Chap- man was informed that an attempt was going to be made to save the steam trawler Rhodesia, of Grimsby, which had stranded five miles to the south of Withernsea...
William and Richard
At 2.30 A.M. on the 12th April the Coast- guard at Shoeburyness reported that the Nore Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were assembled and the boat proceeded to the Light-vessel,...
Cornish Lass
The ketch Cornish Lass, of Plymouth, whilst bound from Saundersfoot to Caldy Island in ballast, stranded on the North Sands on the llth November*. A strong E.S.E. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat William and...
Harriet
On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah Jane Turner was...
Emma Louise
At 1.30 A.M. on the 14th April, during a whole E. by N. gale, the schooner Emma Louise, anchored in the road- stead, showed distress signals. The crew of the Life-boat Barak Austin were already assembled as the night was exceedingly wild ;...
Brakesea
At 3.45 A.M.
on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...