LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Confide
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M.
on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of Rousay, in a bad position, and was leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was...
Craignair
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...
A Small Yacht
Falmouth, Cornwall.—1st June, 1938.
The Porthoustock coastguard had reported that a small yacht, with three men on board, had been blown out to sea from the Helford River. A strong W. by N. gale was blowing, with a very...
Pastime
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.50 A.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, a message was received from the Wyre lightkeepers, through the harbour authorities, that a motor boat was in difficulties about a quarter of a mile from King's...
The Hopper Novia Magum
Dover, Kent.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the Dutch tug Loire had wirelessed that she had been towing the hopper Novia Magum, which had two men on board, but that the hopper...
Martje
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Harold Brown
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 21st of Decem- ber, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the tug Harold Brown, which had a dumb barge in tow, had run aground about four hundred yards east of Shoreham Harbour. At...
The Motor Boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and Enfilade
Newhaven, Sussex.—On the 6th of May, 1955, the motor boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and En- filade put out from Dover to take a salvage party to the S.S. Germania, of Piraeus, which had run ashore to the east of Beachy Head on the...
Ross Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 8th of June, 1955, a man at Portmagee telephoned that the trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, had been due at Portmagee at eight o'clock the night before, but had not...