LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 7th August the 6,000-ton s.s. San Francisco, of Havre, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and bound laden from Newcastle to Havre, ran aground on Haisborough Sands, about two milesS.E. from Haisborough...

MAY 12TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Kilmichael Point look-out that the S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool, had gone ashore on the mainland south of Pass Head, while bound laden with coal...

Whitby, Yorkshire— At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message re- ceived by wireless that the motor vessel Arbroath, of Dundee, had been in col- lision with the S.S. Aina Maria Nur- minen, of...

NOVEMBER 24TH. - ST. DAVID’S, AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 10.15 in the morning a message from the Land’s End Radio Station was received through the St. David’s coastguard that the S.S. Merganser had reported that the S.S. J. P.

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...

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...

FIFTY HOURS AT SEA Walmer, Kent. At 11.55 a.m. on 8th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a fire on board the s.s. Yousuf Baksh of Karachi, in her cargo of jute. Observation was kept on the vessel after...

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...