LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Baron Graham and The S.S. Duero
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — On the night of the 10th February members of the Civic Guard from Waterford brought news that the s.s.
Baron Graham, of Ardrossan, was in distress about eight miles off the Waterford coast. A...
St. Austell, of Barnstaple
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 13th June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about five miles N.N.E. of Clodgy Point was making distress signals. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Balmoral
ON HAISBOROUGH SANDS Cromer, Norfolk. —At 7.22 in the morning of the 4th of January, 1948, the coastguards telephoned information received from the Haisborough Light- vessel that a vessel 011 the North Middle Haisborough Sands was...
Mari
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
A Sea Otter Aeroplane
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.58 in the morning of the 15th of July, 1948, an urgent message was received, through the coastguard, from H.M.S. Harrier, that the pilot of a Fleet Air Arm aero- plane had baled out five to fifteen miles north-west of...
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Fowey, Cornwall.—About 4.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, news was received that a woman had fallen over the cliffs near Gribben Head, and the motor life-boat C.D.E.C., with a small boat in tow, was launched at 4.35. A strong...
The Lady Olive
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht was off Hove, with a strong on-shore breeze blowing from the south-west, and a rough sea. The...
Mayflower
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.52 on the night of the 7th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Mayflower, which had gone with a crew of five, to SuUskcr Rock for Solan-geese, was overdue. A...
Korab II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned a message from the Cross Sand lightvessel that a motor fishing vessel had broken tlown about a mile to the...
Edmond Hugo Stinnes
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 29th January the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that the steamer Edmond Hugo Stinnes, of Hamburg, had sent out a wireless message that she was in distress, with a broken...