LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1887
THE admirably arranged and deeply interesting Tables compiled from the wreck register which the BOARD OF TRADE publishes each year, bring vividly before the mind the terrible loss of life and property which annually takes place on our coasts...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora (1)
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...
China
PiEii, LANCASHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 4th September the William Eirkett Lifeboat was launched in reply to signals, to the assistance of the barque China, of Porsgrund, Norway. The boat was towed by the steam-tug Ajax, and when about two miles,...
The S.S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the-16th Feb- ruary last, the same life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the S. S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland, bound from that port to London with coals, which vessel had struck on the Middle Cross...
S.S. Laird’s Castle, Iago and Mr. Linthorst Homan
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 6.55 A.M. the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S.. Laird’s Castle, of Glasgow, had been in collision. Her position was given as about one mile west of Sanda Island. A moderate S....
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...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1868
As the year rolls round, and in the midst of great storms, this sad tidings of disaster; at sea, the Wreck Register, makes its ap- pearance, and brings afresh to our recollec- tion the scenes of desolation witnessed on too many parts of our...
Category: Annual Reports
The S.S. Briardene and the S. S. Roine
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.8 early on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Briardene, of Sunderland, had collided with the S. S. Roine, of Helsi...
The Greek Motor Vessel King Minos and the S.S. Prodromos
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that two vessels had been in collision twelve miles south-south-west of Dungeness. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E....