LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Easting
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.14 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Lundy and Hartland coastguards reported a yacht to the south-east of Lundy Island which appeared to be in difficulties, and the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was...
Ingerois
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — At 2.15 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel, two miles east of Orfordness, and going north, was flying a signal that an acci- dent had occurred and a doctor was required....
Emma
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At three in the afternoon of the 24th of March, 1952, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported aground on the revetment near C.16 buoy in the Crosby Channel and listing...
Spray
Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 in the morn- ing of the 13th of June, 1952, a life- boatman who had returned from fishing, reported a yacht aground north of Looe Channel. The sea was calm, the southerly breeze light, but there was a thick fog. The...
Joanna
Weymouth, Dorset. — At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1952, news was sent by the Portland coastguard through the Wyke Regis coastguard that a yacht was burning red flares about five miles south-south- west of Portland Bill. A...
Patricia Hague
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Patricia Hague, of Fleetwood, was in distress two and a half miles north-west-by-west of Point of Ayre, and at 5.15...
General Botha
Aberdeen.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1953, the owners of the steam trawler General Botha, of Aberdeen, informed the Jife- boat station that the vessel was in urgent need of food and water. The trawler was five days...
The S.S. Dimitris
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 9.47 on the night of the 14th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had gone aground on East Scar rocks. At 10.10 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched. There was a heavy swell, with a light...
Traquair
Caister, Norfolk. —At 5.20 in the morning, on the 22nd of November1950, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that a vessel seemed to be in distress and aground on Scroby Elbow to the south-east. At 5.30 the life-boat Jose...
Ganges
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.23 in the afternoon, on the 13th of January, 1951, the Newhaven Radio station re- ported that the Dutch tug Ganges, tow- ing a barge and a steam hopper from Rotterdam to Southampton, had asked for help. At 1.45...