LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Mabel
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 14th March, in reply to signal guns from the East Goodwin Lightship, at 3.30 A.M., the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, and found the ss. Mabel, of Hartlepool, ashore on the eastern part...
The S.S. North Tyne
POINT OP AYR, FLINTSHIRE.—The B.S.
North Tyne, of Newcastle, bound from Huelva for Mostyn, was seen stranded, while a moderate gale was blowing from N.W., with heavy squalls and a rough sea, on the 28th January. The...
The S.S Laura Fell
PEMBREY,CARMARTHENSHIRE.—At about 12.30 A.M. on the 14th October signals of distress were shown by the ss. Laura Fell, of London. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the S.W.. with thick rain and a very heavy sea. The signals were...
The S.S. Beemsterdijk (1)
JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...
The S.S. Plasma, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 17TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.30 at night, in a thick fog, the engines of a vessel apparently aground half a mile to the eastward could be heard, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was...
Arcadia and the S.S. Eastwood
JANUARY 9TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK, A N D S K E G N E S S L I N C O L N S H I R E .
Information was received at Wells from the coastguard at about 4.48 PM. that a tug was showing flares off Scolt Head. A strong northerly wind...
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo
WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.
—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...
The S.S. Noreg, of Gothenburg
Walmer, Kent. — At 6.23 on the night of the 21st of December, 1951, a vessel was reported to be on the Goodwin Sands in Trinity Bay, and at 6.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was launched.
The weather...
The S.S. Intendant J. Patrizi
Dover, Kent.—In the morning of the 21st of November, 1949, the S.S.
Intendant J. Patrizi, of Rouen, which had been ashore off Seabrook, was steaming towards Dover in a very rough sea with a whole southerly gale blowing and...
The S.S. Eminence, of Rochester
NOVEMBER 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 7.25 at night a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that the S.S.
Eminence, of Rochester, had anchored in Torbay. She had a man on board with an injured...