LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Jacinth
SUNDERLAND (SotTTH Pl*B>—The S.S.
Jacinth,* of Dundee, in ballast from Montrose for Sunderland, in making for the south entrance, on the night of the 2nd March, struck on the South Beacon rocks and was badly holed. The...
The S.S. Kentwood
MARCH 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 12.15 A.M., the Great Yarmouth Naval Base requested the services of a life-boat for a vessel ashore at Walcot Gap, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 12.35 A.M. A...
The S.S. Antonio
The Life-boat John was launched at 4.40 A.M. on the 14th February, and rescued the crew of twenty-four of the s.s. Antonio, of Bilbao. The vessel had stranded on the North Rock and, when the Life- boat reached her, it was hoped that it would...
The S.S. Artificer
On the morning of the 9th September the Coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore to the north of Filey. A fog prevailed at the time with a rough sea, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was promptly launched. About two miles to...
The S.S. Cordale
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 11.11 on the night of the 7th of May, 1949, the police told the life-boat station, through the coastguard, that a doctor was needed for a man with a dislocated shoulder on board the...
The S.S. Politician
FEBRUARY 5TH and 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 9 A.M. information was received through the coastguard that a vessel was ashore south of Barra Island, and the motor life-boat Lloyd’s was launched at 10 A.M. Half a gale was blowing from...
The S.S. Cluney
The s.s. Cluney, of Inverness, whilst bound to Sunderland in ballast on the 7th December, stranded on the rocks about half a mile from Newbiggin Point.
There was a very thick fog at the time with a heavy swell; it was...
The S.S. Rosehill
NOVEMBER 9TH. - POOLBEG, CO DUBLIN. At about 12.15 P.M. information was received from the skipper of a tug that the S.S. Rosehill, of Cardiff, outward bound in ballast for Cardiff, had run aground on a sandbank N.W. of the Bull...
The S.S. Selectivity
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 5.18 on the morning of the 4th of October, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say there was a sick man on board the S.S. Selectivity of Lon- don. At 5.25 the life-boat LouiseStephens was launched...
The S.S. Alexandria
Penlee, Cornwall.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 17th of September, 1957, the port doctor asked if the life- boat could take an injured man off the S.S. Alexandria, which was expected to be two miles south of Wolf light- house...