LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emma Louise
At 2 P.M.
on the 7th March the schooner Emma Louise, of Wick, bound to the Tyne with a cargo of paving stones, but then lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, showed signals of distress, the crew fear- ing she would drive...
Galtee More
At 6.20A.M.
on the 17th September the Life-boat Sir Arthur Blackwood was launched in response to signals of distress from a steamer. There was a thick fog at the time and on arriving on the scene of the casualty the...
New Boy
A strong S.W.
gale was blowing on the 20th February with a rough sea, and at about 11 A.M.
a message was received from Cove by telephone that a trawler was in a dangerous position, dragging her anchor.<...
The Arimithea
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3 P.M. on the 28th February the coastguard reported that a steam drifter, in tow of another drifter and a tug, had parted her towing hawser and was drifting rapidly on to North...
The S.S. Sudsee
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the morning of the 10th April the Brake lightvessel, on the Goodwin Sands, reported, through the coastguard, that a steamer was aground about a mile and a half E.
half S. from her. A moderate...
Lady Gay
flfracombe, Devon.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on the 13th of May, 1951,the coastguard telephoned that Bull Point lighthouse reported a motor yacht burning a red flare off Brandy Cove. At 1.0 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
The S.S. Co-operator
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 3 P.M. on the 9th January, during a whole W.N.W.
gale, with a very rough sea, the s.s.
Co-operator, of Fenit, broke her moorings.
She drifted towards dangerous rocks...
The S.S. Empire Parsons
JANUARY 12TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.34 P.M. the Kirkwall coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the east side of Stroma, and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 10.15 P.M. A S.S.E.
gale...
Emily
JANUARY 23RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 8.35 A.M. a man reported that he had seen a flare and the motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at 8.45 A.M.
A moderate N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. Eight...
American Ship Breaks In Two
AT 5.18 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, a Liberian ship wire- lessed that the S.S. Western Farmer, of New York, on passage from Norfolk (Virginia) to Bremen with a cargo of coal, had been in collision with the Norwegian tanker...
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