LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Salatis
— Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 2nd February a telephone message was received from the Coastguard at Sizewell, stating that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Bank, and making signals for assistance. The No. 2 Lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...
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Two boys, in search of driftwood, crossed a ridge of rocks between the mainland and Scottle Holm, about two miles to the North of Lerwick, on 7th November, and were cut off by the rising tide. Their where- abouts was discovered about nine at...
Janet
Thurso, Caithness-shire. — On the afternoon of the 27th February, 1939, the life-boat coxswain, returning from fishing, picked up the motor fishing boat Janet, of Thurso, with her engine broken down, about nine miles north-west of the Ruff...
St. Ives Disaster Fund
SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South...
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ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Tobermory, Argyllshire.—On January 20th, 1947, a doctor telephoned asking for the life-boat to convey to Oban a woman with child, who was dangerously ill. The only hope of saving her life was to get her to Oban...
Two Aeroplanes
AEROPLANES IN COLLISION Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.55 in the afternoon of the llth of June, 1947, the St. Merryn Royal Naval Air Station reported that two aeroplanes had collided in mid-air off Holywell Bay and asked the life-boat to help...
Rose
A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
The S.S. Holdernore
LANDING INJURED MEN Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.30 in the morning of Christmas Day, 1947, the Hartland Point coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Holder- nore, of Hull, that she wanted to land injured men. With a doctor on board...
Fishing Boats
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About a quarter to five in the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had reported five people marooned on a sandbank between Naze Point and Stone Banks Buoy. The motor...
King Edgar
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after 9 P.M. on the 14th February, 1938, the life-boatman on watch reported a large steamer aground on the Inner Binks. The sea was rough, with an E.N.E. wind and snow squalls. At 9.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...