LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Luigi Accame, of Genoa
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.55 P.M.
on the 6th April the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore threequartersthreequarters of a mile west of St. Catherine's Point. She was the Italian Luigi Accame, of Genoa,...
Raycrest
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 14th of December, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that flares had been seen near the no. 1 Sea Reach buoy.
At 5.40 the life-boat Greater London II...
Polar Prince
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 9.9 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the Black Middens Rocks. At 9.32 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a calm sea.
There...
Seriality
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 17th of August, 1957, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the M.V. Seriality, of London, that her first officer had...
Winnyfold
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 7.44 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1958, the South Gare coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Winnyfold of Grimsby was ashore two miles east of the South Gare breakwater. At...
Eldborg
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.20 in the evening of the 6th of November, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Eldborg, of Borgarnes, Iceland, had grounded half a mile south of Ardnamurchan, and the motor life- boat Sir...
Nono
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.48 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, a message was received from the Valen- tia Radio Station that a vessel was flying distress signals about one and a half miles south-south-west of Skellig's Rocks...
None (1)
New Brighton, Cheshire.- At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of July, 1954, the Superintendent of Wallasey Ferries reported that a large pontoon beneath the New Brighton landing stage had severed its securing bolts and was adrift. It was a...
None (3)
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 15th of January, 1955, the County Clerk for Sutherland informed the life-boat station that the roads to Skerray and Melvich were blocked by snow and that about a hundred people were...
White Lady
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—A routine exercise had been arranged for two o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1955, but just before the life-boat put to sea the coastguard reported that the yacht White Lady, of Southwold, which had a...