LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Celerity
CROMER, NORFOLK.—A message by telephone having been received from Mundesley stating that the services of the Life-boat were required, on the 17th February, the Life-boat Benjamin Bond Cabbell was launched at 9 P.M. and found the s.s....
S.S. Kollskegg
JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...
S.S. Ila
JANUARY 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT At 4 P.M. news was received that a Nor-wegian steamer was ashore near the North Goodwin Light-vessel and that the naval authorities were sending a tug to investigate.
A second message from the...
The Winter Gales
During the five winter months, from October to February, life-boats were launched 241 times and rescued 314 lives, an average of 63 lives a month..
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S.S. Queensbury
JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes...
S.S. Castor
FEBRUARY 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7 P.M. information was received from the Humber naval authorities that a Norwegian vessel, about six and a half miles from Spurn, had sent out an SOS as she was leaking badly. The weather wascold,...
S.S. Runnelstone
JANUARY 23RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 8.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore. A moderate south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and snow squalls. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 9.5 and at...
S.S. Accomac
JANUARY 31ST. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 9.33 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking a mile E.S.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with thick fog, and the sea was...
S.S. Favorit
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...