LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wancoma
BALLYWALTER.—On the 20th October, the brigantine Wancoma, of Belfast, struck on Wallace's Bocks, about a mile south of the Bally waiter Life-boat station, at about 11.45 P.M., during a fresh gale. She was boarded by a Coastguard galley...
The S.S. Spartan
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Hasborough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Elsmore and Lady Lilford
SKERRIES, Co. DUBLIN. — On the 7th January, the Laura Plait Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, during a strong S.E. gale and heavy sea, and saved the crew of 3 men from the schooner Ehmore, of Runcorn, and 6 men from the...
Shamrock
THEDDLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At daybreak on the 19th April the trawler Shamrock, of Hull, was observed ashore about a quarter of a mile N. of the Theddlethorpe Life-boat station, during stormy weather and a very heavy...
Rheinland
During a severe gale from the E.S.E. and a heavy sea, at 1.20 P.M.
on the 4th December, the barque Rheinland, of Hamburg, laden with timber, was being towed to the Tyne Harbour by the steam-tug Skylark. On arriving within...
Spring
Flares were seen from the Barber Sand at about 1 A.M. on the 5th April, during a N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. The No. 2 Life-boat was launched, proceeded in the direction, and found a fishing-vessel on the sand. About this time a flare...
Jessie
MEVAGISSEY, CORNWALL.—The sloop Jessie, of and for Truro, from Plymouth, with a general cargo, showed signals of distress on the evening of the 10th October.
The Life-boat John Arthur put off to her assistance at 7.30 and...
Ross
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 26th May the motor vessel Ross, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, bound from Glasgow to Liverpool, ran on the rocks on the north side of the Calf of Man. She had a crew of twenty-six, seven passengers,...
Hibernia
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.33 P.M. on the 9th November, 1937, the coastguard reported distress signals about eight and a half miles in a north-easterly direction from Cromer. A moderate N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The No. 1 motor...
The S.S. Clan Malcolm
The s.s. Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, bound from London to the Clyde, ran ashore near the Lizard in a dense fog on the 26th September. She was carrying a crew of seventy-five. A moderate to fresh S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....