LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Nicolaos M. Embiricos (1)
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. James Otis, of San Francisco
FEBRUARY 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 3.45 in the morning the naval authorities at Salcombe informed the coxswain that a ship was ashore at Lannacombe Bay. A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea...
S.S. Wilno, of Gdynia, Poland
APRIL 22ND. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A message was received from the Winterton coastguard at 12.50 in the afternoon that a steamer appeared to be aground on North Caister Shoal about two miles from the coastguard station. A moderate...
S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was aground on Corton Sands and in need of immediate...
The Jersey Life-Boat Brings Eleven Survivors
from the S.S. Brockley Combe (see page 632). - View image in PDF
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Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
S.S. Fort La Prairie, of London
JUNE 21ST. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 7.30 in the morning a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the Little Skerry. A moderate south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and dense...
S.S. W. R. Grace, of Baltimore, U.S.A.
OCTOBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.27 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands, about six miles away to the east. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
S.S. Lisbon, H.M.S. Advance and Abeille
OCTOBER 30TH. - ABERDEEN. A 6.40 A.M. a message was received that the S.S. Lisbon had been torpedoed, and the lifeboat crew was asked to stand by. At 7.42 the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 7.42 A.M., but she was asked to...