LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Steamer Thomas W. Owen
SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...
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Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early afternoon of the 5th of October, 1949, seventeen geological students from Aberdeen University were cut off by the tide off Black Nab. Three of them scrambled through deep water and breakers for help, and...
The S.S. Flathouse
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1955, the coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flathouse, of London, which was in the Roads, had asked for a boat to land her mate, who had been taken ill....
Daisy Picker
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 1-lth of September, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that the fishing boat Daisy Picker, of Tralee, was towing a raft towards Upper Tralee Bay. The tide was ebbing strongly, and half-way...
The S.S. Akka
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9.46 on the night of the 9th of April, 1956, the Port- patrick coastguard reported that the S.S. Akka, of Gothenburg, had wire- lessed that she had gone aground on the Gantock Rocks, Dunoon, and that she was sinking. At...
Red Snapper
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—Shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1952, the coastguard re- ported that the motor trawler Red Snapper, of Lowestoft, was aground on the Newcombe Sands three-quarters of a mile...
The Southend Corporation's Dredger Prittlewell
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 early on the morning of the 7th of March, 1953, the Southend piermaster reported that the Southend Corpora- tion's dredger Prittlewell was stranded on a sandbank at Crowstone, Westcliff, with a crew of...
Marion
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1953, the coastguard told the life-boat cox- swain that a motor boat appeared to be in distress three quarters of a mile off Pakefield and was flying distress signals. At...
Tinker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht anchored two miles north-east of the Nore Towers had asked for a tow. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire. •—• On the morning of the 16th December, 1938, watch was kept by the life-boat coxswain and the coastguard from 8.30 A.M. onwards as the motor fishing boat Courage with a crew of five, which had gone out fishing the...