LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Brilliant
Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th January, 1939, the Berry Head coastguard reported that rockets had been seen about eight miles to the eastward.
A moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 8.55 P.M....
The S.S. Grove Hill
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1952, the coastguard said he had learnt from a wireless signal that distress rockets had been seen four miles east- by-north of Cromer. The life-boat Henry Blogg was launched...
The S.S. President
At 1.5 A.M. on the 6th December a message was received, stating that a steamer was ashore at Druridge Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Mary Andrew were at once called, the Life-boat was launched at 1.30 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...
The S.S. Tekoa
ALDEBURGH.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 8th June a message by telephone was received stating that a large steamer was aground on the Shipwash Sand. She was at that time in no danger, had no signals flying, and as the tide was flowing it was decided...
The S.S. Cairnmona (1)
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
The S.S. Ganges, of Hull
On the 23rd Octo- ber, the S.S. Ganges, of Hull, was stranded on the Hasborough Sands during a strong wind and in hazy weather. The Birming- ham, No. 1 life-boat went off and remained by the vessel four nights, until she floated off the sand...
The S.S. Fermain
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about...
The S.S. Carricklee
On the 7th De- cember the s.s. Carricklee, of Sunderland, outward bound from Fremington to Sunderland with a cargo of clay, got into difficulties and ran ashore on Middle Ridge. She was carrying a crew of eight, and a dog. The coastguard at...
H.M. Trawler Epine and the S.S. Waterloo
JULY 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At about 4.15 P.M. the naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out to a trawler which was coming into the roadstead with survivors, some injured, from a vessel which had been sunk by...
The S.S. Larchfield
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.55 early on the morning of the 24th of February, 1953, the coastguard reported that a wireless message had been intercepted indicating that the S.S. Larchfield, of Liverpool, was ashore near Carmel Head, in Holyhead...