LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Hansa
Boulmer, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 20th March the lights of a vessel were seen through the haze to the S.E. of Boulmer. Shortly afterwards she struck the rocks at Boulmer Steel, and made signals of distress. A freshening...
The S.S. Valentia
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—While a heavy gale was blowing from the N.N.E. on the 26th February the s.s. Valentia, of Greenock, with her machinery broken down, was lying in a very dangerous position, and the Life-boat Robert and Aynes Blair was...
The S.S. Moyallon
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 6.48 a.m. in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Moyallon, of Belfast, lying in St. Ives Bay, had signalled that an accident had occurred on board, and the motor life-boat...
The S.S. Second
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1952, the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched on exercise in a heavy sea, with a south-westerly gale blow- ing. At two o'clock the coastguard signalled...
S.S. Ila
JANUARY 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT At 4 P.M. news was received that a Nor-wegian steamer was ashore near the North Goodwin Light-vessel and that the naval authorities were sending a tug to investigate.
A second message from the...
The S.S. Queen City
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8.20 P.M. information was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that flares and flashes had been seen several miles away in a north westerly direction from Fraserburgh. A s t r o n g...
Pilot Me II and the S.S. Arthur Wright
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 8th of January, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Pilot Me II, as the weather was worsening. The life-boat crew assembled, but at 6.30 the coast- guard rang...
The S.S. Bosworth
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1960, the shipping agents for the s.s. Bosworth, of London, asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be launched to bring ashore a man from the...
The S.S. Bencmachan
DOCTOR TAKEN OUT TO STEAMER Humber, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 18th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the s.s.
Bencmachan of Leith was making for Spurn with an...
The S.S. P.L.M. 17
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 1.8 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be aground on the New- combe Sands. Her signals by lamp could not be read, so the life-boat Michael Stephens was...