LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Schooner-Rigged S.S. Cerigo (2)
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...
A Dinghy & the Steamers The S.S. Larchwood and The S.S. Burma
.—At 9 A.M. on 27th January the Life-boat Motor Mechanic and Bowman put out in the boarding dinghy to run the Life- boat's engines, and hang out riding lights. As they were rowing out to the moorings a dense fog settled. They missed the...
The S.S. Empire Facility, of London
JANUARY 21ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel half a mile to the north-west had fired a rocket and hoisted a signal, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7...
The S.S. Salmoor and a Ship's Boat
STEAMSHIP ASHORE At 2 a.m. the following day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to have come ashore on the corner of the breakwater. The vessel, the s.s. Salmoor, was awaiting help from the local tug but at...
S.S. Nicolaos (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...
Friargate and the S.S. Juan Illueca
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.5 on the morning of the 6th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was thought to be ashore east of Beachy Head. After further enquiries had been made it was reported that the...
S.S. Georgios Kyriakides
J ULY 1 0 T H. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. During the morning news was received from the intelligence officer, Cork, that a ship’s life-boat wasdrifting helplessly about thirteen miles south of Galley Head Lighthouse. A moderate...
The S.S. Radwinter, of London (1)
JUNE 27TH. - ANGLE, AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 10.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Angle that Seaforth Radio Station had picked up an SOS message from the S.S. Radwinter, of London. She had struck bottom a mile south of...
The S.S. Ria de Cormes, of Cadiz
MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
The S.S. Kirsten Skou and Karpfanger
DANISH AND GERMAN SHIPS TN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 5.29 on the morning of the 29th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two ships had been in collision six miles north of Dover. The life-boat Southern Africa...