LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo (1)
WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.
—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
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. Ayrshire Coast, of Liverpool (2)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...
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...
The S.S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the-16th Feb- ruary last, the same life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the S. S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland, bound from that port to London with coals, which vessel had struck on the Middle Cross...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
The S.S. Harry R. Jones (1)
Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.5 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a light north-north-easterly wind and a slight sea to the Harry R. Jones of Wilmington, to whose help she had gone the day...
The Greek Motor Vessel King Minos and the S.S. Prodromos
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that two vessels had been in collision twelve miles south-south-west of Dungeness. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E....