LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Letchworth
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard at the pier head telephoned that a ship was in distress near the Mouse Light-vessel. A fresh wind was blowing. At 3.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
The S.S. Baron Renfrew
FEBRUARY 6TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 11.50 A.M. information was received from a resident of Ulva, through the police, that an unknown vessel had been seen drifting towards the Island of Little Colonsay, and at 12.55 P.M. themotor...
The S.S. Strathroy
At 10.15 P.M. on the 13th February a message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a large steamer was ashore at Street Gate, four miles below Dartmouth. A very dense fog prevailed at the time, and the crew of the Life- boat were...
The S.S. Lona
Margate, Kent.—At 11.2 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling with flags that she re- quired a boat. At 11.10 the life-boat Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1,...
The S.S. Watford
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey, was launched at 2.5 A.M. on 20th March, in a light N.W.
breeze, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the s.s. Wafford, of London, was aground on Haisborough Sands. The...
The S.S. Burrington Combe
MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of...
The S.S. Ardgantock (1)
Yarmouth, and Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 7.1 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1954, the S.S.
Ardgantock, of Greenock, wirelessed that she was listing badly and was in danger of foundering twelve miles west-by-...
The S.S. Orchis
30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
The S.S. Iris
MARCH 18TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.14 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Holyhead, through the coastguard, that a vessel was on fire. A later message gave her position as 19 miles W.S.W.
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The S.S. Cardiff Brook
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a badly injured man aboard the S.S. Cardiff Brook of London. A doctor had been taken...