LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norman Craig
On the afternoon of the 21st April the trawler Norman Craig, of Ramsgate, on passage from Shoreham to Fleetwood, sailed into Swanage Bay with her rigging in disorder, and her sails half up. A moderate south-east breeze was blowing, with a...
Collingwood
On the evening of the 27th July the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht near Perch Rock was signalling for help, and the motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 9.10 P.M.
A strong west breeze was...
St. Austell, of Barnstaple
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 13th June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about five miles N.N.E. of Clodgy Point was making distress signals. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
The Sailing Barge Gladys
A FAMILY BARGE IN PERIL Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.7 in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a sailing barge was in difficulties and had asked for help three to four miles east-north- east of Strumblc...
The S.S. Wilh. Colding
COLLISION IN A FOG Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.5 in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1947, the coastguard received a mes- sage from a vessel five miles north-east of Rattray Head that she was sinking after collision with a trawler...
Eleanor
FISHING-BOAT REFLOATED Barrow, Lancashire.—At about 2.45 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1947, the Walney Island coastguard reported flares to the south of Hilpsford Point, and at 3.10 the motor life-boat N.T. was launched. The...
Rose of England
Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.35 A.M. on the 21st February the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore about a quarter-mile N.E.
of Spurn light-vessel. She was the steam trawler Rose of England, of Grimsby,...
The S.S.Locksley
Berwick » on - Tweed, Northumberland.
—Very early on the morning of the 9th March, 1938, the coastguard reported that the s.s.Locksley, of Montrose, bound from Stonehaven for Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of oats and...
Morena
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
Zircon
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 10.5 on the night of the 6th of August, 1952, distress signals were seen. At the same time a telephone message was received by the honorary secretary from a fishing party that they had tried unsuccessfully...