LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Brightside, of Middlesbrough
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a small steamer aground on the east side of the Scroby Sands. A moderate west-north-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The...
S.S. Dentonia Park
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At seven in the evening a message was received that the S.S. Dentonia Park needed medical aid. The pilot aboard had collapsed.
A south wind was blowing, with driving rain...
S.S. A.F.A.
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At ii a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a call from the owners of the Fleetwood trawler SSAFA saying that the vessel had on board a seriously injured...
S.S. J. B. Paddon
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 9.40 A.M. a request came from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to land an injured man, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H.F. Bailey was...
S.S. Marianne II
APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a steamer ashore on the Scroby Sands. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.
At 4.50 the motor...
S.S. Coulgorm, of Glasgow
FEBRUARY 9TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
At 4.44 in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that Burnham Radio had picked up a message from the S.S. Coulgorm, of Glasgow, that she was...
S.S. Cayo Bonito
WHITBY and UPGANG, YORKSHIRE.— About 9.45 on the night of the 21st January information reached the Coxswain at Whitby that a steamer wasashore at Upgang, whereupon the No.
Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis,"was launched...
S.S. M. Bingul
7,000-TON CARGO SHIP ON GOODWIN SANDS Walmer, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of Tuesday the 10th of September, 1963, Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that an unidentified cargo vessel was aground on the Goodwin Sands mid-way...
S.S. Jan Van Goyen
JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of...
S.S. Gasray, of London
APRIL 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At nine at night a message was received from the St. Abbs Head signal station that a vessel appeared to have struck a mine. There was a light north-west wind and the sea was calm. At 9.8...