LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Petros, of Famagusta
At 4.1 p.m. the life-boat slipped her moorings once more with a doctor on board following a report that an explosion had occurred on board the s.s. Petros of Famagusta. Two men were reported badly burned. The life-boat came up with the...
The S.S. Edinburgh
Signal guns having been fired from the Gull Lightship during a S.S.E. wind and thick weather on the 29th of May, the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan steam-tug left the harbour at 4 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwill Sands, where the...
The S.S. Cattersty
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The 8.S.
Cattersty of Middlesbrough, while on a voyage from Skinningrove to Grangemouth with a cargo of pig-iron, stranded opposite the village of Boulmer at about 8.15 p.m., on the 7th February. A...
The S.S. Suevic (2)
THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...
The S.S. Herongate
NORTH DEAL. — It having been reported that a screw steamer was stranded on the Goodwin Sands, and signal guns having been heard during foggy weather, and a fresh S.W. wind on the 25th October, the Life-boat Mary Somenille put off at about 10...
The S.S.. Gervase
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—At 4.20 A.M., on the 18th May, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W., a screw-steamer was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, with signals of distress flying; and about the same time signal guns were fired from the...
The S.S. Canberra
Routine - but always appreciatedFalmouth's Arun class lifeboat Elizabeth Ann carried out a service on 3 June 1992 which although in fine weather and described by the station honorary secretary as 'routine' led to words of praise...
The S.S. Robert Watson Boyd
TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — As the s.s. Robert Watson Boyd, of North Shields, coal laden for Constantinople, was going to sea at about 7 A.M. on the 22nd March, her steering gear broke down, she became unmanageable, and drifted on to the...
The S.S. Flying Enterprise
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
The S.S. Explorer, of Leith
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 10.30 a.m. on 12th March, 1968, a message was received that a member of the crew of the s.s. Explorer of Leith had suffered a heart attack. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 11.30. It...