LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Bencroy
On the 28th January, shortly before seven o'clock in the evening, a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was on the Haisborough Sands and the No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched with all despatch. On reach- ing the...
A Motor Vessel Innesmurry
At about 7 A.M. on the 25th October a motor vessel named the Innesmurray, of Glasgow, was observed drifting north- ward flying signals of distress, and the Life-boat TheopMlws Sidney Eckalaz was launched to her assistance. It was...
Coniston
At 6.20 in the morning of the 15th November signals of distress were seen from a schooner riding in Ramsey Bay. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched in the teeth of a S.E. gale and a terrible sea and proceeded to the vessel, which proved...
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
Sarah
JOHNSHAVEN.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th February, a small steamer, the Sarah, of Montrose, bound from Bridgeness for Fraserburgh with coal, was observed by the watch at the coastguard station to be dangerously near...
Noble
FRASERBURGH.—On the 6th June the coxswain of the Life-boat observed a vessel—the schooner Noble, of Banff, laden with coal from Sunderland—driving towards the rocks. A heavy sea was running at the time, and it was deemed advisable to have...
Water Lily
On the 27th May, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.N.E., with a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen making for the Cockle Gat. Her sails were blowing about, and when the weather cleared a flag was observed in the...
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
The S.S. Langdon
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...
Thomas M.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.23 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, a message was received from East Pier that a vessel was aground near Quern Buoy.
She was the motor vessel Thomas M., of London, bound with a...