LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched during a moderate N.E. gale and heavy break- ing sea, on the llth January, to the assistance of the s.s. Gangeren, of Brevik, which stranded near the North Pier.

Owing to the heavy...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.14 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the S.S. Mount Blair of Dundee had wirelessed that her steering gear had broken down nine miles from the Tyne piers...

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...

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...

Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.15 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1950, the Southend Coastguard reported a small white light at the north end of Sheep Island. He thought it might be a vessel aground. At 2.43 the life- boat...

FEBRUARY 8TH . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 5 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that S.S. Thala, of London, was ashore on the S.E. corner of the Island of South Uist. She was a vessel of 4,399 tons, laden, and bound...

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...