LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Oscar
WHITBY.—On the 5th January, the Life-boat Robert Whitworth was launched at 10.40 P.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 22 persons, from the s.s. Oscar, of Leith, which vessel had struck off the Whitby Rocks during thick weather and in a...
The S.S. Skarv (1)
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru, of Sunderland.
The Newbiggin motor life-boat was also called...
The S.S. Empire Chamois
STANDING BY 7,000-TON STEAMER Plymouth, Devon.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 5th of April, 1947, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a vessel needed help three miles west of Rame Head. A moderate south-south- west gale was blowing, with...
The S.S. Rivelin
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.5 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was dragging her anchors across the bay towards Salt Island. A watch was kept on her, and at about 1.30 A.M. she was seen burning a flare. A...
The S.S. Lord Citrine
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 1.38 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1951, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned a message received through the North Foreland radio station from the S.S. Lord Citrine. She was...
The S.S. Keynes
Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle...
The S.S. Isleman and the S.S. Kia
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a doctor and bring in from a steamer shipwrecked men whom she...
The S.S. Agia Varvara
ANOTHER GREEK STEAMER HELPED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.0 in the evening of the 10th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported that a ship was aground one and a half miles south-west of North Goodwin Light- vessel. A light south-easterly...
The S.S. Trinity
Cromarty. — In the afternoon of the llth of November, 1951, the S.S.
Trinity, of Panama, wirelessed that she had been damaged and needed a pilot. She would be off Cromarty that night, and asked for a boat to meet her at...
The S.S. Alba
APRIL 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A steamer was seen ashore on the North Goodwin Sands at about 7 P.M. and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 7.26 P.M. A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and at times snow and hail...