LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Tug
THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...
Antelope
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the police telephoned that a vessel was firing distress signals about one mile off Bangor, and at 8.55 the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched. A...
Eleanor
The brigantine Eleanor, of Yarmouth, whilst bound from Seaham to Whitstable with a cargo of coal, was totally wrecked 011 the Sunk Sands on the 18th January.
The weather was hazy and cold, with a strong E.S.E. wind blowing...
Lilian Drost
At about 7.40 A.M. on the 21st No- vember a message was received from the Coastguard reporting that a vessel was on the West Sunk Sands, and the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was sent to her assistance. On arrival at...
The H.M Tug Boat Diligent
About midnight, on 14th January, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel apparently ashore on the Gunfleet Sands, and a telephone message was sent to the Gunfleet Light- house, asking for information. Shortly afterwards further...
Three Fishing Cobles Mary, Kingfisher, William and Alice all of Hartlepool
The fishing- coble Mary, of Hartlepool, was seen in a helpless condition drifting on the Kettleness Reefs, in the south part of Runswick Bay, soon after daylight on the 16th June, while a heavy gale was blowing from the...
The S.S. King Ja Ja
ORME'S HEAD.—On the 24th December, at about noon, the s.s. King Ja Ja, of Carnarvon, exhibited signals of distress in Llandudno Bay. The Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched, and on arriving at the vessel it was found that her...
Richard and Francis
LOWESTOFT.—Flares having been seen N.E. of the Newcome Sands, during a strong N.W. wind and a rough sea, on the night-of the 25th November, the Life-boat Two Sisters Mary and Hannah went out at 10 o'clock, and found the sloop Richard and...
Clio
Shortly after 10 P.M. on the 8th March information I was received that a brigantine was ashore about a mile to the north of the station. The assembly signal was fired and the Life-boat John Burch launched.
On reaching the...
Golden Spray
Dungeness, Kent.—At half past five in the evening, on the 18th of July, 1950, the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put to sea in a strong south- westerly wind with a choppy sea. She was going to help a fishing vessel, which the coxswain...