LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Major A. J. Dawson
MAJOR A. J. DAWSON, M.B.E., who died at his home in Hastings on the 4th of February last, at the age of seventy-nine, was a most widely travelled man and the author of a great variety of books. He served in the war of 1914 to 1918 although...
Category: Obituaries
Letitia
On the 16th August the 14,000-ton passenger and cargo steamer Letitia, of Glasgow, bound from Montreal to Glasgow, ran ashore on the South Briggs Rocks in a dense fog. In addition to cargo, she was carrying 300 passengers and 200 crew....
Ransel
On the 16th September the Dutch motor vessel Ransel, of Delfzyl, bound, laden, from Ayr to Teignmouth, came to anchor in Courtown Bay, and five of the crew, with the master's wife and her sister, went ashore for provisions. The master,...
Celtic
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 14th October, 1939, a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor lifeboat Lord Southborough...
Ewell
REFLOATING A STRANDED STEAMER Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of January llth, 1947, a steamer was seen to have stranded on the Caister Shoal, half a mile east by south of the life-boat station. She made distress...
Effulgence
Stromness, Orkneys. At 10.55 on the night of the 19th of May, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that four red flares had been seen three miles off Hoy. At 11.20 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was launched in a...
St. Nicholas
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Beggars Scalp off Seacliff coastguard look-out, but was in no apparent danger. Twenty...
Rosario Lopez
SPANISH TRAWLER AGROUND IN GALE Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 31st December, 1962, the harbour master at Bantry reported that a Spanish trawler had run ashore at Adrigole, and at 1.30 the life-boat Sarah Tilson was...
Dee Dee
NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CABIN CRUISER Selsey, Sussex. At 7.55 on the evening of the 26th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Owers lightvessel that a cabin cruiser was...
Wellpark
RADIO MESSAGE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.35 a.m. on 2 ist December, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message via Valentia Radio that the motor vessel Wellpark, of Glasgow, had a crewman on board suffering from acute appendicitis. The...