LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Magician, of Liverpool
APRIL 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.10 at night on the 14th of April the Peterhead coastguard reported a vessel in difficulties at Craigwan, two miles north of Peterhead. Later he reported that no help was needed...
August and the S.S. Norma
On the following day the gale still continued, and as it was reported that several vessels were ashore along the coast, and that others were in danger, the crews of the Life-boats assembled in readiness for service. At about 10 A.M. the brig...
The S.S. Norman
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—-The ss. Norman, of London, bound from Dantzie to Stockton with grain, went ashore about a mile and a half N. of Seaham Harbour shortly before 1 A.M. on the 10th June, during a N. wind and high sea. The Life-boat Sisters...
The S.S. Dalhouse, of Dundee
Soon after the life-boat returned to her station, the S.S. Queen, of Dundee, re- ported a wreck on the Abertay Sands. A fresh crew was mustered, and the life-boat at once proceeded again, in tow of the Queen, some distance down the river,...
The S.S. Miguel, of Bilbao
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...
The S.S. Sharpsburg, of Philadelphia
FEBRUARY 14TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a life-boat was required by a tanker on fire between Ql and Q2 Buoys in the Queen’s Channel. A light northerly wind was blowing with a slight...
The S.S. River Humber (1)
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
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 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...
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...