LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Jules Deyne and Fulham VIII

The Humber, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a cargo vessel and a trawler had been in collision and that the skipper of the trawler needed medical attention urgently. The trawler Jules Deyne of Ostend had sunk, and the motor vessel Fulham VIII of London, which had collided with her, had rescued her crew of six and was making towards the Humber lightvessel. At 7.25 the life- boat City of Bradford HI was launched with a doctor on board in a moderate easterly wind and a slight sea. It was two and a quarter hours after high water. The life-boat came up with the Fulham VIII two miles east of the Spurn lightvessel and put the doctor aboard. He found that the skipper had died. The motor vessel and the life-boat then made for the Bull lightvessel, where the sea was calmer, and then the doctor, the six rescued seamen and the body of the trawler's skipper were transferred to the life-boat, which brought them to Grimsby, where they were landed. The life-boat left Grimsby at 12.35 early on the 21st November and reached her station at 1.30 in the morning..