LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn."
By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston. A strong gale was blowing from the N.E....
Category: Services
T.I.D. 66 and the S.S. Holdernook
Amble, Northumberland.—At 3.5 in the morning of the 6th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground at the harbour entrance and needed help, and at 3.10 the life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings. There was a...
The S.S. Benwyvis, the S.S. Guecho and the German Tug Wotan
Dover, Kent.—At 7.37 oil the night of the 21st of March, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two ships had been in collision in a fog four miles south-east of Dover. They were the S.S. Benwyvis, of Leith, and the...
The S.S. Empire Castle, of Belfast
MAY 3RD. - WALMER, KENT. At 1.30 in the morning a doctor was needed on board the S.S. Empire Castle, of Belfast. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. It was too rough for any shoreboat to put out, and at two...
Bannprince and the S.S. Ocean Coast
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.3 on the night of the 12th of November, 1955, a message was received from the port radar station that a coaster had been sunk in a collision near Formby light-float. Seven minutes later the life-boat Norman B....
Pacific and the S.S. Dunnett Head
Southend'on-Sea, Essex. — On 15th February, 1938, the signal station at the pierhead reported that a barge was in distress off Grain Spit and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 12.5 P.M. A whole...
Saga, the S.S. Gowrie and S.S. St. Clair
Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...
The S.S. Empire Kinsman, of Sunderland
DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.
About 8.40 in the morning a message was received that a steamer was aground off Walmer Castle. A light north-north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog....
The S.S. Pomerol, of Le Havre
MAY 3RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightship had reported a vessel aground on the North-East Goodwin Sands. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (4)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. —• At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of March, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer reported seeing wreckage eleven miles east-south-east of Gourdon, believed to be of the S.S.
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