LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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. Baron Graham and The S.S. Duero
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — On the night of the 10th February members of the Civic Guard from Waterford brought news that the s.s.
Baron Graham, of Ardrossan, was in distress about eight miles off the Waterford coast. A...
The S.S. Ingrid II
The s.s.IngridlL, of Christiania, whilst bound from Christiania to London with a cargo of timber, stranded on the Whitby Rocks on the 25th November. As the sea was smooth, Coxswain Langlands and Second Coxswain Eglon put off in a coble to...
The S.S. Kentwood, of London
JULY 25TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 10.37 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, which was off Great Yarmouth, had signalled for a doctor to attend an injured man. At 11.22 the motor...
The Three-Masted S.S. Elaine
DUNGENESS.—It having been reported by the coastguard watchman, on the.
night of the 12th January, that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Lifeboat B.A.O.B. was launched, and found the three-masted s.s. Elaine, of...
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...
The S.S. Kildale and Harley
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About noon a message was received at Bridlington from the coastguard that the S.S. KildaleKildale was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes ten to twenty miles N.E. of Spurn, and that her...
The S.S. Suevic (3)
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...
Lulonga, S.S. Broadhurst and the S.S. London Trader
JULY 26TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At about 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that the steamer Lulonga had been torpedoed.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. With an...
The S.S. Amiral Aube (1)
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.
—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...