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The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
Hans Thiis
RAMSGATE,—A message was received telephone from the Goodwin Light-vessel on the morning of the 24th July, stating that a vessel was ashore on the North Goodwin Sands. At 10 o'clock the Lifeboat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug John...
Thorplie Bank
The ship Thomlie- banlc, of Glasgow—a large vessel of nearly 2,000 tons register—whilst bound from Pisagua to Palmouth with a cargo of nitrate, ran on to the Grim Rocks during foggy weather on the 28th November, The vessel commenced to...
Help
T e n b y , Pembrokeshire.—On the evening of the 1st August the coastguard reported that a motor boat in the bay was dragging her anchor towards the beach. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, and it was raining. The sea was heavy. The...
Hester
On. the 1st January the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial succeeded in saving the crew of the flat Hester, of Conway, bound from that place to Bun- corn. The Life-boat was afloat on this service from half-past two in the afternoon to nine...
An Aircraft
Buckie, Banffshire.—At 11.33 on the morning of the 12th of March, 1953, the coastguard passed on a message from the Buckie police that an air- craft was down in the sea off Buckpool harbour, about one and a half mileswest of Buckie. The life...
Hilda II and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th of March, 1954, the weather worsened, making the harbour entrance dangerous. Two local fishing cobles, the Hilda II and Betty, were at sea. The life-boatmen assembled, but the Hilda II...
William Hill
On the following day the same Lifeboat went, in a heavy sea, to the assistance of the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, which had shown signals of distress while lying in the bay about two miles from the shore. It was found that the...
Excel
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the evening of the 17th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the steam drifter Excel IV was aground on Gun Rock, Fame Islands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was...
Vanessa
Sheringham, Norfolk.—-At six o'clock on the evening of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in need of help a quarter of a mile south-east of Sheringham.
At 6.22 the life-boat Foresters Cen-...