LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Karmt
Port Askaig, Islay.—On the afternoon of the 31st December the Oban coastguard telegraphed that an aircraft had reported a ship drifting eastward through the Gulf of Corrievreckan, which is north of Jura Island. A strong S.W. breeze was...
Louci Gougy
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.10 A.M. on the 26th May, 1939, a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through the Deal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
Washington
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.
on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.
The weather was...
Antilope
ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...
Rosemary IV
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that two yachts, taking part in the Cowes to Cherbourg race, had gone aground on Shingles Bank near Elbow Buoy, but they had...
Helen
Barrow, Lancashire. — At 8.55 on the night of the 7th of July, 1952, whilst the coxswain was on duty aboard the pilot boat, a message was intercepted from Morecambe Bay Lightvessel to Seaforth Radio that a small yacht bound for Fleetwood...
Velma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the early morning of the 14th of July, 1952, the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a call from the Gorton Lightvessel, received through the...
Wyvern
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of October, 1952, the Red Sand Forts reported that a yacht had stranded on the Forts' steel structure and that two boys had been taken off her. The Forts asked if...
Greylass
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1952, the life-boat coxswain asked local people to keep a look-out for the fishing vessel Greylass, of Hoylake, which was overdue with a crew of three. Nothing...
Mollia
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—During thick fog on the afternoon of the 9th of Decem- ber, 1952, a vessel about two miles south-east of the harbour was heard blowing her siren, and at 5.15 the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen. At 5.22...