LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Achilles
HARWICH and ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been fired by the Cork Lightvessel, the Harwich steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Boat in tow, went out at 4 A.M., on the 20th October, proceeded to the Light-ship, and was...
The S.S. Ida
PALLING.—A vessel having been discerned ashore on the Hasborough Sand with a signal of distress flying during squally weather and a heavy sea on the 28th July, the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 2 P.M., and found the stranded...
The S.S. Stanlake
JANUARY 16TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
A vessel was seen to be very near the Whitburn Steel Rocks, flying distress signals.
An E.N.E. gale was blowing, with snow squalls. The sea was rough. At 10.20...
The S.S. Moidart
CROMER.—On the 20th November, during a heavy breeze from the E., rockets were observed in the direction of Foulness Shoal, or Cromer Bock, about two miles to the eastward of Cromer. The Life-boat was launched during a heavy snowstorm, at...
The S.S. Cid
WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...
The S.S. Esther Maria
Falmouth, Cornwall. — Just before 6.30 A.M. on the morning of the 5th August, 1938, information was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, but there was a thick fog. The tide...
The S.S. Fleswick
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The s.s. Fleswick, of Whitehaven, coal laden from Neath for Hayle, stranded on the eastern spit of Hayle Bar, in a strong gale from N.
and a very heavy sea, on the 28th January. At 7.55 P.M. the Life-boat E...
The S.S. Ravenscraig
The s.s. Ravenscraig, of Kirkcaldy, a small coasting steamer, whilst bound from Arbroath to Hull with a general cargo on the 16th February, struck some sunken rocks off Eyemouth Bay, and remained fast. The weather was moderate at the time,...
The S.S. Libra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on thenight of the 8th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Libra, of Stockholm, had asked for a boat to land a sick man. No other suitable boat...
The S.S. Irish Beech
DECEMBER 15TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. The S.S. Irish Beech arrived off Dunmore East in a southerly gale, with very heavy seas. The pilot boat had gone up the river for shelter and the pilot was unable to go out to the steamer. As no...