LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Concurrent and Waterlily
FORMBY.—Two vessels being sighted in a very dangerous position on the Great Burbo Bank, having run aground in a fog, on the 21st March, the Life-boat John and Henrietta was launched at 8.15 A.M., and after a long pull reached the vessels and...
Belfort, of Rochelle
On the 12th April, shortly after midnight, signal-guns were reported to have been heard in the direction of the north end of the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate Life-boat, the Bradford, in. tow of the Vulcan steam-tug, at once pro- ceeded to sea...
Defender
On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...
Chester
The sloop Chester- field, of Lynn, whilst bound to Hull, laden with gravel, stranded on the Inner Sinks on the 9th September.
Coxswain Cross immediately assembled his crew and proceeded to the vessel in the boarding...
None (2)
31st July.
A signal from the Clacton-on-Sea life- boat was mistaken as a call for more aid.
—Rewards, £8 10s. 6d. (An account of the Clacton service appears on page 156.).
A Small Boat (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk.—10th July. It had been reported that there was wreckage off Weybourne and that a man was in the water, but it was found that a small boat had been washed off the beach, with no one on board.—Rewards, £21 15s....
A Steamer (4)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—1st October.
A steamer carrying pit props had capsized, and a trawler had picked up one survivor, but a search for the rest of the crew was without result.— Rewards, £6 14s. 6d..
A Yacht (5)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—21st June, 1939. The Kentish Knock Lightvessel had reported that a yacht had carried away her mast, but the yacht cleared herself and went on her way.—Rewards, £14 15s. 6d..
A Ship
Exmouth, Devon. — llth August, 1939. A ship had been reported by the coastguard as apparently on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was presumed that the ship had gone on her way.—Rewards, £17 17*. 6d..
A Small Vessel
Longhope, Orkneys.—3rd September, 1939. A small vessel had been reported flying distress signals, and the life-boat searched a wide area but found nothing.
It was learned later that the vessel had been taken in tow by a...