LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Beresford (1)
WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy...
King Ford
At 10 P.M. on the 3rd March the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel stating that a vessel was making distress signals on the Kentish Knock Sands. Within a quarter of an hour the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza...
The Sisters
The James Stevens No. 9 Life-boat was called out by distress signals from the Nore Light- vessel at about 5.30 A.M. on the 8th February. On the arrival of the Life- boat the master at the Nore reported that he was repeating signals from the...
Hermann
On the morning of the 25th February signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Mid Scroby Sand. A heavy sea was running at the time, and a strong wind was blowing from the N. The Lifeboat Beauchamp was launched at about 3...
The S.S. Vikvall
The s.s. Vikvall, of Oskaishamn, Sweden, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, about'one mile S.E. of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, on 24th December, while bound, in ballast, to Hartlepool. The weather was misty, and a strong westerly...
Elsie Annie
At 2 P.M. on 5th May the Coxswain received a telephone message from Wexford to the effect that a small steamer was on Wexford Bar in a very dangerous position, and the Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. was at once launched to her help. A whole E.N.E....
A Motor Launch
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—On the night of the 14th of April, 1948, the Civic Guard telephoned that a boat was in distress in the bay, and at 11 o'clock the motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosvueller was...
Silver Wake
Dover, Kent.—At 12.48 in the morn- ing of the 16th of January, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Llanstephan Castle had reported that a Sea Scout launch had broken down five miles south of Folkestone, and the life-boat...
Margaret
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th March the weather got very bad, and several of the local boats at sea returned to harbour. One boat, the Margaret, was still to come, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
A Small Yacht
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, information was received from a resident of Three Beaches that a small yacht, anchored off Goodrington Beach, appeared to be in difficulties and in a dangerous position. There was a...