LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
The S.S. Fort Massac, of London
FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...
The S.S. Empire Conleith, of London
FEBRUARY 15TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. At 4.5 in the afternoon the Wick coastguard reported that the S.S.
Empire Conleith, of London, bound with coal for Iceland, had broken down three miles north of Dunnet Head and was...
The S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast (1)
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (13)
On the 7th-8th December, 1939, the Salcombe life-boat rescued the sixty-two survivors of the S.S. Tajandoen, of Amsterdam, from the S.S. Louis Shied, of Antwerp, which had gone ashore after picking up survivors of the Tajandoen, sunk by...
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The S.S. Lancashire Coast, of Liverpool (1)
MARCH 2 6TH. - TOBERMORY, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.30 in the morning the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a ship was in difficulties and making water six miles south-south-east of Ardnamurchan Light. The Tobermory motor life-boat Sir...
The S.S.. Sabac and Dorington Court
STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...
The S.S. Northeastern Victory, of San Francisco
DECEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard reported that a vessel had been seen at noon heading towards the Goodwin Sands.
It was misty, and she had not been seen...