LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fowey, Cornwall.—While the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was out to the help of the woman who had fallen from Gribben Head on the 7th of August, a wireless message was received at her station from the Polruan coastguard at 5.50 that some boys had...
The Sailing Barge British Oak
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.41 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the sailing barge British Oak, of London, had sunk on the Buxey Sands.
Her two masts could be seen. The motor life...
Brali
Walmer, Kent.—At 1.3 in the after- noon of the 14th of April, 1949, the Deal coastguard telephoned a report from North Foreland Radio Station that the motor tanker Brali, of Oslo, bound for Bergen, from Abadan, had gone aground on the...
The Cockle Light Vessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 6.35 P.M. on the llth March the coastguard reported that rockets had been fired by the Cockle light-vessel. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea. At 7.30 P.M....
A Small Sailing Boat
On the 27th July a small sailing boat, with two men and a boy on board, got into difficulties about three-quarters of a mile off the Muglins, at the entrance to the bay. The boat had put out from Bray for Kingstown, but had been blown out...
The S.S. Brightside
Falmouth, Cornwall.—The motor lifeboat B.A.S.P. was launched at 4.35 A.M. on the 24th December, as a steamer had been heard blowing continuously on her whistle. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The lifeboat found the s.s....
A Speed-Boat
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 19th August a man told the honorary secretary that his speed-boat was anchored off the bathing pool, with her engine broken down, and that the weather was too bad for him to go off to her and fetch...
Irtysch (3)
BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...
Helen Sutton
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.56 on the morning of the 3rd of November, 1958, the life-boat Constance Calverley, which was at sea undergoing machinery trials, received a message by radio-telephone from the reserve life-boat Helen Sutton, which...
Fertile, Craiglea and Epomeo
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. On the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing fleet in Berwick Bay, as the weather had deteriorated considerably. It was squally and over- cast with a...