LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Suzanna D. and Trawler Speranza
Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
South African
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
The Gorton Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk.—At 11.20 on the night of the 25th of July, 1956, the Superintendent of the local Trinity House depot rang up to say that a man in the Gorton lightvessel was sick. He asked if the life-boat would take...
Bidjly
Dover, Kent.—At 9.4 on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties a quarter of a mile off Shakespeare Cliff. The coxswain put out in his own boat to investigate,...
None (1)
Galway Bay. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 24th of January, 1961, the local medical officer told the honorary secre- tary that a patient was in need of treatment on Inishere Island and asked for the use of the life-boat to take him there....
Little Dick
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of the life-boat station. A moderate south-west...
A Boat (1)
Poole, Dorset. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 21st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with a man and his daughter aboard, which had left Wareham the evening before without lights, was overdue....
A Fishing Boat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.43 early on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that SOS signals were being sent from a small boat drifting south of Welling- ton pier. The...
Bonnie Lass
ASHORE ON ROCKS At 10.12 a.m. on iTth June, 1965, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Kindred Star told the coxswain of the life-boat that the motor fishing vessel Bonnie Lass was ashore on the Sheugh Rocks about half a mile north of the...
The Cross Sands Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk: At 12 noon on 3rd November, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House, Great Yarmouth, asked for help in bringing off a sick man from the Cross Sands light vessel as the Trinity House tender was too far...