LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Steamers Melissa and The Balmerino
On the afternoon of the 19th December the coxswain was warned that a vessel was ashore at Blackburn Rock, south of Ayr. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Sir David...
The S.S. Martha
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — The coastguard at Trevose Head, on the night of the 22nd February, reported that a large steamer was in distress five miles to the north and that she was burning signals for assistance. The tug Helen Peele, with the Life...
Rosebud
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing boat Bosebud, of Lowestoft, was being sailed from that place to Lerwick, on the 7th April, by two Shetland fishermen who had just purchased her, she was brought up by stress of weather and had to...
Elsie
At 1.5 A.M.
on the 26th September signals were observed from a vessel to the north- eastward of the station. They were duly reported to the Coxswain, who promptly summoned his crew. The Mark Lane was launched, and found a...
Isallt
FIVE LIVES LOST Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the Coast Life Saving Service reported a vessel in distress off Bally- money, Co. Wexford, about ten miles by sea from Arklow, and the motor life-boat...
The S.S. Albion Star
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 23rd of April. 1948, the s.s. Albion Star, of London, was anchored off shore.
Her crew had run out of food, while taking the steamer to a yard to be broken up. A south-westerly breeze was...
Seagull
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1948, the harbour-master tele- phoned that a small yawl, under sail, was about six miles out to sea and appeared to be in difficulties. A squally north-westerly...
The S.S. Fulham II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.45 in the evening of the 10th of December, 1948, the police telephoned that North Foreland radio station had reported the s.s. Fulham II, of London, one mile north-east of Britannia Pier, with a...
Northgate
Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 28th of January, 1949, there was dense fog, but the weather was calm, and at 5.10 the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Northgate, of Hull, was ashore close to the life-boat...
A Motor Boat (1)
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—On the morning of the 27th June a motor boat left Methil, with seven people on board, pleasure fishing. At 9.48 A.M. the coastguard reported that she had gone ashore in Largo bay, but as the coastguard life-saving...