LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Editor
HOLYHEAD.—On the 22nd March, a steamer was reported to be on the rocks in the vicinity of the South Stack, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden proceeded at 3 A.M. to her assistance, in tow of a ste&mtug.
A very thick fog...
Crackshot
Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 1st January a vessel was seen to be in distress. She was the cargo steamer Crackshot, of Newcastle, bound with a cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-one from the Tyne to London. She had stranded on a...
Sonia
Selsey, Sussex.—At about 9.45 A.M.
on the 25th August two men fishing two miles S.W. of Selsey Bill saw signals coming from the motor yacht Sonia, of LittJehampton, which was at anchor near-by. They went to her and found...
Capricornus
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.
on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.
A moderate northerly breeze...
Flag Jack
Early on the morning of the 14th September the coxswain received a telephone message from the coastguard that a vessel was in distress east of the look-out. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and it was...
Ben Blanche
Mumbles, Glamorganshire, and Tenby , Pembrokeshire.—Some time after mid- night on the 18th-19th December the steamer Ben Blanche, of Ramsey, ran on the rocks to the west of Port Eynon Head. She was bqund from Dundoon, in Northern Ireland, to...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Joybell
Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
Albion
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...
Fishing Boats
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
Kentish Hoy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork...