LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ben Varrey
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 1.80 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station from the pier-master that a vessel was showing red lights off Douglas Head.
A strong westerly gale was blowing...
The S.S. Naess Falcon
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 19th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Falcon of Monrovia, had a sick man on board. At 1.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson,...
The Greek S.S. Pontoporos
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1956, a doctor telephoned to say that the Greek S.S. Pontoporos, which was south-west of the Scilly Isles, had a seriously injured man on board who required a doctor urgently....
The S.S. Georgie
10,000-TON STEAMER HELPED Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 9.36 in the morning of the 15th of April, 1947, the Foreland coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Atherfield coastguard that a vessel was ashore 400 yards west...
The S.S. Cairnavon
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of the 4th of September.
1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the lighthouse-keeper at South Gare that a vessel had gone ashore in the River Tees....
The S.S. Glenravel
The new Motor Life-boat Lady Rallies, which had been stationed at Fraserburgh as recently as July, was called upon to per- form her first service on the 8th August.
Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning an...
The S.S. Southport
Caister, Norfolk. —At 11.14 in the afternoon, on the 17th of March, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was on the Barber Sands. At 1.30 the life- boat Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a moderate south- westerly...
The S.S. Salvinia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.44 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in distress off Tollesbury pier in the River Blackwater, and that people were shouting for...
The S.S. Turrethill
— On the 13th May the s.s. Turrethill, of Newcastle- on - Tyne, whilst bound from Goole with a cargo of coal to Poole, Dorset- shire, capsized when off Southwold. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, with a rough sea, and unhappily...
The S.S. Kittiwake
WHITHORN, N.B.—The s.s. Kittiwake, of Carlisle, while leaving Whithorn Harbour, at about 11.15 P.M. on the 6th March, during a fresh S. breeze, got her steering gear foul, and stranded on the Screens Rocks. The coxswain of the Life-boat,...