LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Kron Prinsen, of Sweden
OCTOBER 21ST. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
The S.S. Kron Prinsen, of Sweden, had run ashore, but refloated without help.
- Rewards, £19 4s..
The S.S. Domingo de Larrinaga
Teesmouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 5.3 in the morning of the 25th of December, 1950, the South Gare coast- guard telephoned the Teesmouth life- boat station that a ship was believedto be ashore on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the...
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
The S.S. Cormorant, of Kirkwall
On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.
was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...
The Train Ferry S.S. Hampton Ferry
Dover, Kent.—At 9.17 on the morn- ing of the 8th of July, 1951, during a dense fog, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that the train ferry, S.S. Hampton Ferry, of Dover, had collided with the breakwater. At 9.20 the life-boat Southern...
The S.S. Empire Breeze (1)
MARCH 13TH - 15TH. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the 5th February the S.S. Empire Breeze had stranded on the Bondicar Rocks, and the Amble lifeboat had rescued her crew. On the 13th March the Empire Breeze was refloated and taken in tow...
524 and The S.S. Capito
OCTOBER 11TH. - APPLEDORE, CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.50 in the afternoon the naval officer-incharge at Appledore asked the life-boat to be in readiness to launch. A south-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
The S.S. Lake Michigan (1)
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. Kedah, of Singapore
AUGUST 12TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. At 10.40 in the morning the St. Ives coastguard reported that a tug, with a steamer in tow, north of St. Ives Head, was making little headway. A fresh westerly gale was blowing, with very heavy...
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (2)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...