LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Galleon & Oscar Gorthon
The s.s. Castle Galleon, of Newcastle, while bound for Dieppe from Blyth laden with coal, came into collision with the Swedish steamer Oscar Gorthon during a dense fog at 9.20 on the morning of 2nd June, about three miles S.S.W. of the Cross...
The S.S. Ronja Borchard (1)
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.
•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...
The S.S. Wallace Rose and the Ex-Norwegian Steamer Rusk
OCTOBER 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD.
At 10.45 A.M. the S.S. Wallace Rose entered the bay flying signals for a boat and stretcher, as she had shipwrecked men on board. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
The S.S. Druid of Sunderland
At 10.40 P.M. of the 6th Jan., the Birmingham No. 2 Life- boat put off, in answer to signals of dis- tress from the s.s. Druid, of Sunderland, and conveyed ashore 5 of her crew who had been injured by the bursting of her boiler. One poor...
Lulonga, S.S. Broadhurst and the S.S. London Trader
JULY 26TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At about 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that the steamer Lulonga had been torpedoed.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. With an...
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 Three-Masted S.S. Elaine
DUNGENESS.—It having been reported by the coastguard watchman, on the.
night of the 12th January, that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Lifeboat B.A.O.B. was launched, and found the three-masted s.s. Elaine, of...
The S.S. King Ja Ja
ORME'S HEAD.—On the 24th December, at about noon, the s.s. King Ja Ja, of Carnarvon, exhibited signals of distress in Llandudno Bay. The Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched, and on arriving at the vessel it was found that her...
The S.S. Pass of Glenogle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 28th of October, 1954, the coxswain overheard a message from the Humber radio station to the port doctor stating that the S.S. Pass of Glenogle, of London, needed a doctor to attend her captain....
The S.S. Bilsdale, of Middlesbrough
DECEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 26th of October the S.S. Bilsdale, of Middlesbrough, ran ashore two miles north-west of Cley. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary went to her help, but the master declined...