LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Antigone
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.
Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...
The S.S. Eden
FLEETWOOD.—It was reported that a steamer was ashore on Sunderland Bank, at 6.30 P.M., on the 27th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W. and a heavy sea. The Life-boat, Child of Hale, proceeded as soon as possible to the vessel in tow...
The S.S. Mertainer
FEBRUARY 3RD. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before 1 P.M. information was received from the Flamborough Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was in distress off Flamborough with her boats out. An easterly wind was, blowing,...
The S.S. Trsat
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8.57 P.M. the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported that a vessel was being attacked by aeroplanes several miles to the N.E. of the head. She was the S.S. Trsat, of Cardiff (late of Jugoslavia),...
The S.S. Campo Grande
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....
The S.S. Entopan
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF COSTA RICAN STEAMER Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.20 on the evening of the 27th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Entopan of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, had a sick man on board....
The S.S. Skelligs
POBTBUSH, Co. ANTBIM.—The s.s. Skelligs, of Glasgow, bound to Liverpool with a general cargo, was leaving the harbour during a strong breeze from the W. and a very high sea, on the afternoon of the 15th December, when she failed to answer...
The S.S. Buccaneer
The s.s. Buccaneer, of West Hartlepool, carrying a crew of twenty-one hands, stranded on the North Scroby Sands on the 18th March.
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden proceeded to her assistance, and when she reached her the...
The S.S. Riso
About 9.40 P.M. on the 4th February during a ' strong westerly gale intimation was re- j ceived that s.s. Bt'so, of Haugesund, had run on to " Longcraig" rocks about seven miles to the east of Dunbar. The crew of the...
The S.S. Olivia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.30 on the evening of the 27th of November, 1954, during a fresh south-south-west gale, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the S.S. Olivia, of...