LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Monarch
At 9.5 P.M. on the 2nd March the life-boat watchman reported that a steamer had drifted ashore on the Inner Binks. She was in a dangerous position, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched. A light, but freshening...
The S.S. Tranholm
During mode- rate but very thick weather on the 8th August, the s.s. Tarnholm, of Copen- hagen, bound from Dunkirk to New- castle, stranded on the Barber Sands opposite the Life-boat shed. She was observed at about 6 P.M. and the No. 2...
The S.S. Capitol
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1952, the police reported that the S.S. Capitol, of London, wanted to land a sick man and would be off the harbour about four o'clock. She arrived at...
The S.S. Alchymist
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.36 on the morning of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Alchymist of Lon- don, which had a sick man aboard, would be off Bembridge in about one hour and had...
The S.S. Pentland Firth
During a whole E.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the morning of the llth April, the Coxswain reported, at 3.30 A.M., that a steamer was ashore between Scrabster and Thurso. The weather was bitterly cold with heavy rain and snow showers,...
The S.S. Sverige
The s.s. Sverige, of Gefle, was mined when proceeding I through the Stanford Channel on the i 13th August. As the vessel commenced to settle down very rapidly, the Life- boat was launched with all expedition and proceeded to the assistance...
The S.S. Martha
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — The coastguard at Trevose Head, on the night of the 22nd February, reported that a large steamer was in distress five miles to the north and that she was burning signals for assistance. The tug Helen Peele, with the Life...
The S.S. Sunfleet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At three o'clock on the after- noon of the 28th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a local doctor had received a message from the S.S. Sunfleet, of Goole. asking if a man on board,...
The S.S. Warren Field
Margate, Kent.— At 7.49 on the night of the 28th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned news from North Foreland Radio that a ship was aground on the east end of Margate Spit Sands. She was the S.S. Warren Field, of Liverpool,, on...
The S.S. Hilda
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 3.10 A.M.
on the 29th August, 1939, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on May Island. The weather was very thick, with a light easterly breeze and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat Nellie and...