LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ariadne (1)
ALDEBDRGH, SUFFOLK, and HARWICH, ESSEX.—The Aldeburgh No. 2 Life- boat Edward Dresden was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the 19th June in a strong westerly breeze and moderate sea to the assistance of the s.s. Ariadne, of London, ashore on the...
The S.S. Bencroy
An excep- tionally severe gale was experienced on all coasts of the United Kingdom on the 22nd February, and about 12.40 P.M.
the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Bencroy...
Barge Lord Nelson
— At about 2 A.M. on the 3rd October, the Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was called up and informed that a vessel near the North Bank had dragged her anchors, and was burning flares for assistance. He hastened to the Boathouse,...
Golden Lily
At 5.45 A.M. on the morning of 23rd Sep- tember the coxswain observed a fishing- boat approaching the harbour in a strong S.S.E. wind with a very heavy sea.
The boat was struck by successive seas and thrown on to the Annat...
Dew-i-wyn
.—At 11.35 A.M.
on the 30th September a telephone message was received at the coastguard's station, Clovelly, from the coastguard at Hartland Point, to the effect that a ketch was showing signals of...
The S.S. Vostizza
The No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden was launched at 5.30 A.M. on the 30th November to the assistance of a, vessel, which had stranded about four miles to the north of Whitby.
The vessel turned out to be the s.s. Vos- tizza...
A Steamer
A steamer of 6,000 tons register stranded in the neighbourhood of the Skullmartin Rock in the early morning of the 9th November. Information of the casualty reached Donaghadee shortly after 5 A.M., and the crew of the Motor Life-boat William...
None (5)
Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...
Venture
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the local motor fishing boat Venture had left the island of Bernera, Lewis, for Stornoway on the 12th with a crew...
The S.S. Hera
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.33 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had stopped south-south-east of the coast- guard station and was showing the " Not under...