LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Amble
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collierwhich loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
The S.S. Amble (1)
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collierwhich loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
The S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE’ AT CLOUGHEY JUNE 17TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. The S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi, of Bilbao, had gone aground on Butter Pladdy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party...
The S.S. Dicky, of Liverpool and the S.S. Leeds City
Faltnouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the same night a vessel in Falmouth Harbour signalled for help by whistle and rocket, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put out. A whole southerly gale was then blowing, with...
The S.S. City of Melbourne
Nov. 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At midnight a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the South Goodwins. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 12.20 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...
The S.S. Urania, of Swansea
At 9 A.M. on the 18th January, at which time it was blowing hard from the southward, the s.s. Urania, of Swansea, bound from that port to Newry, went ashore north of this port on the North Bull Bank, and the same Life-boat promptly proceeded...
The S.S. Irma, of Sweden
DECEMBER 8TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL,.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress off The Manacles. A strong north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Crawford and...
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of November, 1953, the Lade coastguard telephoned the Dungeness life-boat station that the S.S. Perou, of Havre, had reported that she had been...
The S.S. Goldstone and the S.S. Naranco (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent. At 3 46 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of both stations that the s.s. Goldstone of Panama had collided with the s.s. Naranco of Gijon, Spain,...
The S.S. Mohegan
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. —• A disaslrous shipwreck occurred on the Manacle rocks, near the Lizard, on thenight of the 14th October, involving the lamentable loss of 106 lives. The s.s.
Mohegan, of Hull, a large four-masted...