LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ronja Borchard (1)
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.
•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...
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...
The S.S. Firelight and Riviere
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.5 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1953, the coxswain heard a message on his wireless set from Cullercoats radio station that the S.S. Firelight had collided with the trawler Riviere. of Grirnsby, about five...
The S.S. City of Venice
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,.—Minute guns having been heard at 9 P.M. on the 20th of March, the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat was very promptly launched, four minutes only being occupied in getting her afloat, and proceeded to the S.W., in which...
The S.S. Donaghadee and Arestal
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 8.15 on the night of the 1st of April, 1949, the Civic Guard reported a message from the Coast Life-saving Service that the s.s. Donaghadee, of Belfast, was aground at Castlerock, Dundalk Bay, with a broken rudder...
The S.S. Dwight W. Morrow
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At about 4.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of June, 1948, it was reported that the s.s.
Dwight W. Morrow, of Jacksonville, U.S.A., had wirelessed that she had lost her propeller twelve miles west of...
The S.S. Commandant Charles Meric
On the 1st March the s.s.
Commandant Charles Meric, of Bay- onne, ran aground on the Cross Sand while bound from the Tyne to Bordeaux with a cargo of coal. She carried a crew of thirty. There was very little wind, but the...
The S.S. City of York
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. City of York had reported that she wished to land a sick man at Whitby and had stated that she would be off the...
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia
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. Glamorganbrook, of London
OCTOBER 11TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 4.35 in the morning the Whitby coastguard reported a message from Cullercoats wireless station that the S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London, bound for the Isle of Wight from Blyth, was...