LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cordale
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 11.11 on the night of the 7th of May, 1949, the police told the life-boat station, through the coastguard, that a doctor was needed for a man with a dislocated shoulder on board the...
Dawn
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 1 P.M. on the 19th November, 1938, information was received from the R.N. Shore Signal Station that a motor yacht was in distress, bearing south, midway between Southend pierhead and Sheerness. A light S.W....
Jean Edmonds
Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 22nd February, 1939, a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat. The...
The Corton Lightvessel
SICK MAN ON A LIGHT-VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 11.47 in the morning of January 6th, 1947, a message was received through the coastguard from the Trinity House superintendent, that a keeper aboard the...
The Line Delambre
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 5th February the police reported that Ryde Hospital had received a message from Niton Radio Station that the liner Delambre, of Liverpool, bound from London to the River Plate, was at anchor...
The Swiss Steamer Lugano
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel east-by- north of the pier had signalled for a doctor as her master felt ill....
Skagerak
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.55 on the night of the 27th of September, 1951, a wireless message was received through the harbour master, from the captain of the Norwegian motor vessel Skagerak that he needed a doctor for a very sick man. As...
The S.S. Trinity
Cromarty. — In the afternoon of the llth of November, 1951, the S.S.
Trinity, of Panama, wirelessed that she had been damaged and needed a pilot. She would be off Cromarty that night, and asked for a boat to meet her at...
Golden Galleon
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.45 early on the morn- ing of the 18th of July, 1955, the Great Yarmouth police reported that the motor pleasure boat Golden Galleon, with one hundred and twenty-two passengers on board, had run...
Pluto
Margate, Kent.—At 4.56 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that he had seen a cabin cruiser two miles to the eastward and that one of her crew was waving a shirt. At 5.2 the life- boat North Foreland...