LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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. Crawford Castle
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
The S.S. Tanny, of Bristol
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.17 A.M.
on the 12th December the coastguard reported that distress flares had been seen four or five miles N.E. of Castle Hill. A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and it was very...
The S.S. Brightside (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 22nd February the s.s. Brightside, of Middlesbrough, ran on to Shingle Bank, while bound from St. Kevern for London with a cargo of granite.
She was not in immediate danger, and preparations...
The S.S. Goulburn
crew of the Motor Life-Boat Charter- house were assembled, and the boat proceeded to the vessel, which by this j time had drifted outside the eastern I breakwater and run ashore. When j the Life-boat reached the ...
The S.S. Charlotte Schroder (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey: and Torbay, Devon.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 4th of August, 1950, it was reported to the St. Peter Port life-boat authorities that the S.S. Charlotte Schroder, of Hamburg, had had a boiler explosion, severely...
The S.S. Empire Bridge
MARCH 15TH - 17TH. - LYTHAM-ST.
ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.30 A.M.
information was received from the resident naval officer at Preston, and confirmed by the coastguard, that a vessel was aground, and at 10...
The S.S. Spartan
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Hasborough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
The S.S. Vigilant
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A telegram reporting a vessel ashore in Port St.
Mary Bay was received early on the morning of the 7th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S., with a very heavy sea. The snow having...