LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Alex Van Opstal
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.20 P.M.
* on the 15th September, 1939, the coastguards, telephoned that four boats were adrift near the Shambles Lightship with the crew of a Belgian steamer on board. The weather was fine. The motor...
The S.S. City of Perth
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of February, 1959, the life-boathouse attendant told the coxswain that the s.s. City of Perth of London, which was south of Shoe- bury buoy, had asked for the life-boat to land a...
The S.S. Charlotte Schroder (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey: and Torbay, Devon.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 4th of August, 1950, it was reported to the St. Peter Port life-boat authorities that the S.S. Charlotte Schroder, of Hamburg, had had a boiler explosion, severely...
The S.S. Freden, of Stockholm
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.18 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Freden, of Stockholm, was making for Yarmouth Roads and had asked for a doctor, as the captain was injured. A light...
The S.S. Nord Est II
NOVEMBER 21ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that an S.O.S. call had been received from the S.S. Nord Est II, of Belfast, a former French vessel, which, laden with petrol for Dublin, was aground on the...
The S.S.. Gwynwood and S.S.Deodata
OCT. 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after four in the afternoon a police inspector and ambulance men arrived at the life-boat station, and shortly afterwards a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S.....
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. Warren Grove (1)
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
The S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set her course to Torbay to land her second engineer...
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...