LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Mount Blair
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...
The S.S. Conceicao Maria
Walmer, Kent. — At 7.24 in the morning of the 6th of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that the South Goodwin Lightship had fired guns to warn a vessel approaching the sands.
A little later news came that she was aground...
The S.S. Libra
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1953, during thick fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore two hundred yards south of North Cheek in Robin Hood's Bay. At 12.20 the No. 1...
The S.S. Wilh. Colding
COLLISION IN A FOG Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.5 in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1947, the coastguard received a mes- sage from a vessel five miles north-east of Rattray Head that she was sinking after collision with a trawler...
The S.S. Cairnglen
OCTOBER 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 6.57 A . M . a message was received from the port war signal station that a vessel was ashore off the Tyne, north of Souter Point. A strong easterly wind was blowing, and there was a moderate...
The S.S. Florence
On 9th December, 1915, the s.s. Florence, of Stockton, whilst bound from London to Newcastle with a cargo of oil stranded on the "Middle Binks." It was a very dark night and blowing a strong gale, with a terrible sea running over...
The S.S. Slateland
At 6.30 A.M.
on 17th April the Coxswain received a message from the Guard at Goleen that a steamer was ashore to the S.W.
of Cape Clear. The Motor Life-boat Shamrock was launched at 7.30 A.M. in a moderate...
The S.S. Fermain
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about...
The S.S. Dryburgh
Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M..
a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west...
The S.S. Baron Carnegie
JUNE 11TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEM- BROKESHIRE. At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval base had reported a boat, from a vessel in distress, twelve miles north of St. David’s Head, and the motor life-boat Civil Service...