LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Effra and Mardi Gras
FISHING COBLE TOWED TO HARBOUR Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Effra had reported that she had the local fishing coble Mardi Gras with a...
S.S. Nicolaos M. Embiricos
NOV. 4TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.7 P.M. 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 squalls. There was a...
S.S. Empire Prospero
JANUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.15 in the morning the port war signal station telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the North Gare Breakwater.
A strong and increasing north-north-east wind...
S.S. Vic 33
JANUARY 5TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
At 12.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel apparently in distress. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea and showers of sleet. The motor life-boat...
The S.S. Domingo de Larrinaga (1)
Teesmouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 5.3 in the morning of the 25th of December, 1950, the South Gare coast- guard telephoned the Teesmouth life- boat station that a ship was believedto be ashore on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the...
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...
S.S. British Dragoon
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S.S. British Dragoon, of London, a tanker of 9,909 tons, was ashore on Taylors Spit in the Queens Channel. At...
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 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...