LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Duke of Lancaster
DEC. 10TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
At 8.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Duke of Lancaster, of Barrow, anchored about three miles N.E. of Ramsey, required a doctor to attend to an injured man...
The S.S. City of Bristol and the S.S. Selnes
Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 26th of November, 1950, the pier head signal station re- ported a message from the Walton-on- Naze coastguard. The S.S. City of Bristol, of Glasgow, had been in collision with the...
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. 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. Fane & Harvest Home
At 9 P.M. on the 24th December the Coastguard reported j that a vessel was ashore on Whitby I Rock. Coxswain Langlands at once.
summoned the Life-boat crew and pro- j ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the s...
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia (2)
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. 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. Wilh. Colding (1)
INJURED MAN BROUGHT ASHORE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—Just before noon on the 23rd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. Wilh. Colding, of Copenhagen, which three days previously had been in collision and had been...
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...