LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kasprowy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.18 on the afternoon of the 22nd of April, 1958, a message was received from the St. Peter Port signal station that there were two seamen on board the Polish tanker Kasprowy suffering from food poisoning. At...
The S.S. Edinburgh
Signal guns having been fired from the Gull Lightship during a S.S.E. wind and thick weather on the 29th of May, the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan steam-tug left the harbour at 4 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwill Sands, where the...
The S.S. Arcobaleno
Sunderland, Durham.—At 5.47 on the night of the 4th of November, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was close to the rocks to the eastward and signalling for tugs. A fresh south- easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 6.20...
The S.S. Bruse
Sunderland, Durham. — About two o'clock early on the morning of the 5th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bruse, of Oslo, had broken down at the entrance to the harbour and was drifting dan- gerously near the South...
Scud
Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent - At 1.40 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, a crew member informed the honorary secretary that a small pram dinghy was in difficulties three quarters of a mile to seaward. She had dragged her anchor in the wind and tidal...
Sirena II
Swanage, Dorset - At 10.38 a.m. on 5th June, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted and was firing flares two miles south east of St. Alban's Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.46 in a...
The Trinity House Vessel Mermaid
TOOK PROVISIONS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Great Yarmouth asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take out provisions to the Trinity...
Queen Alexandra
ENGINE FAILED Workington, Cumberland. At 6.3 a.m. on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen one mile off Workington.
There was a gentle north-easterly breeze with a...
Tina Louise
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 12.15 p.m. on 2nd July, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel had stranded on the West Barrow sands one and a half miles north west of the Mid-Barrow lightvessel.
The life-boat Sir Godfrey...
The Barges Cabby and Colluna
MCH. 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.12 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that two barges were in need of help to the east of the coastguard station. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...