LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Peritia
TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE. — On the night of the 25th March signals of distress were seen to the eastward from the Coastguard station. On it being reported the Life-boat William and Mary Devey was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which...
The S.S. Skulda
LOWESTOFT. — The attention of the coxswain of the Life - boat, Samuel Plinsoll, was called to a steamer which was showing flares for a pilot, on the night of 15th May, and on looking at her he saw that her course was taking her towards the N...
The S.S Strathcarron
CRESSWEL NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 30th April while the wind was blowing half a gale from S.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the 8.8.
Strathcarron, of Glasgow, bound from Danzic for Philadelphia, via the Tyne,...
The S.S. Lady Katherine
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
The S.S. Conceicao Maria
Walmer, Kent. — At 7.24 in the morning of the 6th of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that the South Goodwin Lightship had fired guns to warn a vessel approaching the sands.
A little later news came that she was aground...
The S.S. Cayo Bonito
WHITBY and UPGANG, YORKSHIRE.— About 9.45 on the night of the 21st January information reached the Coxswain at Whitby that a steamer wasashore at Upgang, whereupon the No.
Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis,"was launched...
The S.S. Glassalt
Shortly before noon on the 30th March, the Coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, stating that a steamer was ashore on the Sunk Sands. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing at the time, and the sea...
The S.S. Lake Michigan
DUNGENESS, KENT, AND WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—At 3.30 A.M. on the 19th February, the s.s. Lake Michigan, of Liverpool, collided with a sailing vessel about two miles S.W. of Dungeness.
The steamer, a very large one of 9240 tons...
The S.S. Epidauro
During a thick fog on the 13th February the s.s. Epidauro, of Lusinpiclo, whilst bound from the Mediterranean to Swansea in ballast, stranded in the vicinity of the Overton Cliffs, about one mile to the west of Port Eynon Point.
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The S.S. Baxtergate
Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st of July, 1959, a firm of shipping agents informed the coxs- wain that the father of a boy aboard the s.s. Baxtergate of London was danger- ously ill. As there was no other suitable boat...