LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Velocity
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The coastguard reported, on the night of the 21st February, that he had heard signals of distress. A steamer was seen on the Bondicar Rocks : she had a light burning and was sounding her...
Paula Bertha
About 8 A.M.
on the 1st September the Coastguard gave information to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, that a vessel was aground on the Holm Sand.
He promptly mustered his crew, and...
Sunflower
At 7.30A.M.
on the 6th February, during thick weather, with a strong W. breeze blow- ing and a moderate sea, a message was received by telephone stating that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Start Point. The...
Angloman (2)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Thomas Thresher
Thurso, Caithness-shire. — The Grimsby trawler Thomas Thresher, bound for Iceland, put into Scrabster harbour at 9 P.M. on the 2nd April to get medical attention for one of her crew.
She left again at 11.15 P.M. and shortly...
Dr. Colyn
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 9 A.M. on the 2nd May the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was ashore near Johnshaven. A gentle south breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...
Pau-Amma
Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.30 A.M. on the 4th July the coastguard reported that a vessel five miles west of Portland Bill was firing rockets. A strong breeze to moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Elisabeth
Wells, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 19th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore about two and a half miles east of the entrance to Wells harbour. She was the auxiliary ketch Elisabeth, of Hamburg, bound from Hamburg to...
The Irish Motor Torpedo Boat M. 4,
Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—During the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1950, the Helvick Head life-boat, H. F. Bailey, was on passage from Baltimore, expecting to call at Ballycotton. About 4.50, a searchlight...
The S.S. Ronja Borchard
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.
•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...