LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cranby
OCTOBER 20TH. - REDCAR, YORK-SHIRE. At 9.30 P.M. the S.S. Cranby, ofMontreal, a 2,000-ton steamer, with a crew of twenty-one, bound laden with coal from Newcastle to London, ran ashore on West Scar Rocks. The weather was hazy, with a light...
The S.S. Etna
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Etna, of Stock- holm, had wirelessed that she had gone aground on the Skerrinoe Rocks off the east coast...
The S.S. St. Walburg
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Eastbourne coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station that the S.S. St. Walburg, of Groningen, which was about one mile south of...
The S.S. Ajuthia
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—The usual quietude of Runswick, a small fishing village to the north of Whitby, was considerably disturbed in the early hours of the 1st March by the s.s.
Ajuthia, of London, stranding on the rocks...
The S.S. Atlantic Sea
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...
The S.S. Anversville
Dungeness, Kent.—During the night of the 9th April a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, Dungeness, that a large steamer was ashore near the point. She was the s.s. Anversville, of Antwerp, with about 200 persons...
The S.S. Ford Fisher
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that he was keeping under observation a coaster on the east side of the River Wyre one and a half miles from the coastguard...
The S.S. Badgistan
JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.35 P.M. information was received from the tug Englishman, in Campbeltown Harbour, that she had picked up a message on her wireless, from a vessel ashore at Cleats Point, Isle of Arran. An E.S.E....
The S.S. Hubert
14th October. During a whole N.W.-gale, with a very heavy sea, an S O S was received from the s.s. Hubert, which was being towed to Troon to be broken up. The life-boat put out at 11.5 P.M., and searched unsuccessfully until 2...
The S.S. Empire Ptarmigan
JULY 27TH. - DUNBAR EAST-LOTHIAN. At 8.40 A.M., information was received from the Royal Observer Corps, through the coastguard, that a vessel was ashore two and a half miles east of Dunbar, and the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan...