LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Binnendijk
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.15 P.M.
* * on the 7th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was...
The S.S. Reina del Pacifico
EXPLOSION ON TRIAL RUN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.5 in the evening of the llth of September, 1947, a message came that the S.S. Reina del Pacifico, of Liverpool, running trials about twelve miles north of the Cope- land Islands, after being...
John Watt
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 2.27 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel to the eastward was making S.O.S. signals on her syren. The motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was launched at 3.30...
The S.S. Wave Commander
Wells, Norfolk—At about 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of July, 1948, information was received from the coastguard that a ship, twenty miles to the north-east of Wells, had had an explosion in the engine-room and a doctor was needed. The...
Alliance
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 1.55 in the morning of the 18th of February, 1949, the Kyle coastguard reported that the new motor fishing boat Alliance, of Inverness, was ashore five miles to the south-east of Calve Island in the Sound of Mull...
From Canada: A Subscriber for 56 Years
A SUBSCRIBER in Quebec, in sending his annual gift of £5 wrote: "It may be of interest to you to know that when a boy I was employed by a firm here which every summer shipped by sailing vessels to Great Britain, many cargoes of...
Category: Donations
A Javelin Aircraft
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 10.35 on the morning of the 21 st of Octo- ber, 1954, the Barry Island coastguard reported that a message had been received from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group at Plymouth that the pilot of a Javelin aircraft,...
Carpo
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of...
A Firefly Aeroplane (1)
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Moorlands
Montrose, Angus.—At 10.10 on the night of the 25th of December, 1952, the Usan coastguard telephoned that a vessel five miles east-south-east of Montrose had wirelessed a distress signal, and at 10.35 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched...