LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Champion and Dawn
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.57 on the evening of the 24th of April, 1957, the watchman on the east pier reported that the motor boat Champion, with a crew of two, which had gone out to help the yacht Dawn, needed help as the key on her propeller...
Das Wappen von Bremen (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...
The Isle of Man from Page 17
from page 17 married James Ritchie, whose family were the owners of the brewery Heron and Brearley, and she has stayed for a lifetime. Her present home, not far from the boathouse, looks out over Ramsey Bay, and as the years have gone by her...
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British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
The Gaff Cutter Jolie Brine
Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...
Mary Ann
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 4th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties seven miles east of St. Agnes lighthouse. At 10.42 the...
Day Dream and The Raider
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 19th July the Orfordness coastguard reported that a yacht about eight miles S.W. of Orfordness was flying what appeared to be a signal of distress. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
S.S. Jan Van Goyen
JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of...
Sarah Ann
JULY 10TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 7 P.M. a yacht was seen to strike the Caister Shoal, near the south end of Caister Beach, knock off, and drift ashore. A slight northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The pulling and...
Orleans and Jan Van Toon
Tanker ablaze NEWS OF A COLLISION between the 76,000-tonne Greek tanker Orleans and a 295-tonne Dutch fishing vessel, Jan Van Toon, reached Cromer lifeboat station at 0815 on the morning of Friday January 24, 1986. The tanker, about 65 miles...