LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. President Emile Marcesche
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.28 in the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had wirelessed that a vessel appeared to be aground three miles south by west of the lightvessel, and at 4...
Neath Castle
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1957, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Neath Castle, of Grimsby, had an injured man on board. She was being towed by the motor vessel Stoke...
May Queen
Courdon, Kincardinesbire. — In the afternoon of the 18th November, 1938, a sudden south gale sprang up, with a rough sea and heavy rain. A boat which came in reported that the small local fishing yawl May Queen, with a crew of three, was...
Patricia
ENGINE FAILED Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.55 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1947, information was received from the coastguard at Trevose Head that a small boat off Bude was firing red rockets, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary...
Joass
YACHTS IN DISTRESS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morning of the 8th of June, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported a yacht ashore on the Spile Sands, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tempor- ary duty at the station, was...
Jill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.55 in the evening of the 9th of June, 1948, news came that a fishing boat was on the revetment near C.7 black buoy, with the tide ebbing, and was in some danger. At 8.10 the No. 2 motor life- boat Edmund and Mary...
Maybe
Ramsgate, Kent.—About 10.33 in the morning of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been heading for the Goodwin Sands, had ignored a warning fired by the East Goodwin Lightship and was now lost to sight....
Menapia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At five in the evening of the 20th of November, 1948, a signal was received from the motor vessel Menapia, of Wexford, that a doctor was urgently needed, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
Beta
Sunderland, Durham.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of January, 1949, when a light north-easterly wind was blowing, with a slight swell, the Dutch motor vessel Beta was reported by the coastguard to be signalling "not under...
The S.S. Mitcham
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.43 on the evening of the 4th of March, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Mitcham, of London, which was at anchor half a mile south-east of Chap- man Light, had reported that her skipper was ill...