LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kingfisher and Just Reward
The life- boat crew kept a watch on the morning of the 4th November, as the local fishing cobles Kingfisher and Just Reward were at sea, an east gale had sprung up and the sea was making. At 12.30 P.M. the sea was very rough and the second...
The S.S. Foch Rose
Walmer, Kent.—At 6.5 on the morn- ing of the 24th of February, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Foch Rose, of Liverpool, which had a crew of twelve, had run aground on Oldstairs Shoal. At 6.30 the life- boat Charles Dibdin,...
The S.S. Akka
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9.46 on the night of the 9th of April, 1956, the Port- patrick coastguard reported that the S.S. Akka, of Gothenburg, had wire- lessed that she had gone aground on the Gantock Rocks, Dunoon, and that she was sinking. At...
Gentle Annie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the honorary secretary's son reported that the yacht Gentle Annie, of West Kirby, was flying distress signals in a danger- ous position off the north end of East Hoyle...
Trade Winds
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.52 in the morning of the 22nd of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a black flag about one mile to the eastward and at ten o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens left her...
The Southend Corporation's Dredger Prittlewell
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 early on the morning of the 7th of March, 1953, the Southend piermaster reported that the Southend Corpora- tion's dredger Prittlewell was stranded on a sandbank at Crowstone, Westcliff, with a crew of...
Daddy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht anchored half a mile south-east of the pier needed help, and at 2.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The...
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
Tinker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht anchored two miles north-east of the Nore Towers had asked for a tow. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...
Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory
Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. — Later on the same day, 5th October, 1939, information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned...