LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Boston Trader
FEBRUARY 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
Information was received through the coastguard at 12.15 P.M. that the lifeboat might be needed. Half a gale was blowing from the east, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. Then...
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
The S.S. Beemsterdijk
JANUARY 30TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning the coastwatchers at Brownstown Head telephoned the civic guard that a raft had been seen with three men on it. The information was passed to the life-boat station, and the...
The S.S. Marie Moller
Holyhead, Anglesey.—On March 22nd the motor life-boat A.E.D. rescued 59 men from the s.s. Marie Moller, of Shanghai, when she was on fire.— Rewards, £10 18s. 6d. (A full account of this service appeared in the last issue of The...
The S.S. Eider
— During a strong northerly gale on the 17th July, a telegram was received from the Coast- j guard reporting that a vessel was in distress one and a half miles to the north of Flamborough Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat MattJieio...
The S.S. Esmond
MARCH 9TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A message had been received from the coastguard that a heavy explosion had been heard, and a later message said that an S.O.S. had come in from the S.S. Esmond The life-boat Julia...
The S.S. Ardgantock
On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...
The S.S. Yewglen
FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
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...