LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Breakaway
At 3.45 a.m. on igth June, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the yacht Breakaway had reported that she had been rammed by a coaster off Beachy head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4 o'clock in a light...
Nellie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.44 on the night of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been seen to burn flares one mile off Minster, Isle of Sheppey.
At 10.15 the life-boat Greater...
Bonaccord
Stromness, Orkneys.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of Decem-ber, 1954, a man at Rosgar telephoned that distress flares could be seen near Skerry Ness, Hoy Sound. At 5.13 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W. was...
Zeeploey of Hoogez
During a heavy gale of wind from the N.N.E. on the 15th December last, the Dutch brig Zeeploeg, of Hoogez, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. The vessel's crew took to the rigging, and were taken off the jibboom by the Ramsgate life- boat...
M.F.V. Ecstasy and M.F.V. Broadside
Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...
Day Star
SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
Helsingborg
The steamer Helsingborg, of Helsingborg, bound from Sweden to Blyth in ballast, stranded in the early morning of the 18th February on the rocks about a quarter of a mile to the south of Cress- well Coastguard Station. Information reached the...
Shrimp Boats
At 9 A.M. On the 2nd August a heavy squall from N.E. accompanied by heavy rain blew over Lowestof fc and caught the fleet of shrimp boats whilst at sea. As their position was one of considerable danger the No. 2 Life-boat Stock Exchange...
Two Steamers
16th June.
Two steamers had been in collision in a thick fog off Trevose Head, but the life-boat could not find them. She came across another steamer, which got into touch with one of the steamers by wireless, and learnt...
Marylis
Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of February, 1956, a man reported that the trawler Marylis, of Lorient, had run on the rocks in Ballyhealy Bay and that her crew of nine needed help. At 10.35 the life- boat Ann Isabella...