LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Matching
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, Lloyd's agent reported that the S.S. Matching, of London, due off Gorleston at 6.0 that evening, had a sick man on board and had asked for a...
Freda
Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...
Kajtum
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 23rd of February, 1949, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that the Swedish steamer Kajtum, of Stockholm, at anchor in Carrick Roads, Belfast Lough, was in need of a doctor, and the life-boat...
Lady of the Isles
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 2.50 a.m. on 4th September, 1966, the motor fishing vessel Lady of the Isles was overdue. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 slipped her moorings at 3.25 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the police at Portmadoc told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy in difficulties at Portmadoc estuary was being swept out to sea on the ebb tide. The coastguard...
George
LLANDDWYN.—At daylight on the 5th October, the schooner George, of Liverpool, bound from Dublin for Port Dinorwic in ballast, was observed to show signal of distress whilst riding heavily at anchor in the bay during a fresh N.W.
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Anzac
Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.10 on the night of the llth of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flashing S.O.S. signals.
Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
A Bathing Float
Torbay, Devon.—Shortly after noon on the 19th August, 1938, the Churston police reported, through the coastguard, that a boy on a bathing float was being carried out to sea off Broadsands. A moderate W.S.W.
breeze was...
The S.S. Ardfern
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 30th of July, 1949, the life-boat Lloyd's was on passage from Sandbank, Argyllshire, to her station, after survey.
At 1.50 in the afternoon she saw signals of distress about...
The S.S Malta
While a gale was blowing from the 8.E., with a cross sea, intense darkness and rain on the 9th March, the s.s.
Malta, of North Shields, went aground on the Boulmer South Rocks. She was on a voyage from Bergen to Shields in...