LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Doriefs
APPENDICITIS PATIENT Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m.
on 4th January, 1964, a ship's agent in Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S. Doriefs of Monrovia had on board a sick man suffering from...
The S.S. Glenpark
Shortly after noon on the 18th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress on the Holm Sands. The weather was fine at the time, with a light S.W. breeze blowing and a smooth sea, but, as it was feared that she would not be...
The S.S. Nedjan
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had stranded about two hundred vards north of Church Point.
At 3.9 the life-boat Richard Ashley...
The S.S. Somali (2)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...
The S.S. Primrose
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...
The S.S. Westcliffe Hall
FEBRUARY 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that German aeroplanes had dropped bombs and later that a vessel was reported to be firing red flares. At 3.50 the No. 1 motor life-boat...
The S.S. Florence
Arbroath, Angus.—At about 5.20 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, it was noticed that the S.S. Florence, of Liverpool, which had anchored earlier in the afternoon off the harbour entrance, was in difficulties. She was a vessel...
The S.S. Vic 67
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.5 in the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that a small steamer in New Harbour had signalled on her whistle for help. The motor life-boat A.E.D. left her moorings at 1.20 in a southerly...
The S.S. Inverpool
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — On Sunday, the 3rd of December, 1950, the S.S. Inverpool, of London, a tanker of 600 tons laden with oil fuel, ran on a sandbank on the south side of the River Ribble. At 4.4 in the afternoon the Formby...
The S.S.. Binnendijk
OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...