LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Trafalgar
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 15th January, during a moderate gale from the W.N.W., accompanied by heavy snow showers, the British Workman Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and found the s.s. Trafalgar, of London, ashore...
The S.S. Caudebec
Falmouth, Cornwall. —• About four o'clock in the afternoon of the 2nd ofFebruary, 1950, a message was received that a vessel was dragging and in danger of going on the rocks at Black Rock, in Falmouth Harbour. At 4.15 the...
The S.S. Bramham (1)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The Steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 had just returned from an exercise on the 18th July when the s.s. Bramham, referred to above, was reported to have stranded on the Cross Sand. She immediately put to sea again, and...
The S.S. Peverill
At about 6 A.M.
on the 30th December it was reported that a vessel had stranded on the Whitby Rocks. Coxswain Langlands at once summoned his crew and pro- ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the s.s. Peveril, of Leith,...
The S.S. Velocity
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The coastguard reported, on the night of the 21st February, that he had heard signals of distress. A steamer was seen on the Bondicar Rocks : she had a light burning and was sounding her...
The S.S. Altyre
Shortly after midnight on the 17th-18th January signals of distress were seen burning in the direction of the South Barber Sands.
As soon as it was possible the No. 1 boat Covent Garden was launched and found the S.S....
The S.S. Henry Middleton
AMERICAN STEAMER AGROUND Falmouth, Cornwall. — Shortly after 1.0 in the morning of February 1st, 1947, information was received from the coastguard that a steamer in the harbour was showing signals of distress.
A south-east...
The S.S. Deloraine
On the 29th January a gang of eight men, for salvage purposes, boarded the s.s. Delo- raine, of Glasgow, which stranded off Ballantrae in a blizzard at the end of December. The weather at the time was fine, but the W.N.W. wind gradu- ally...
The S.S. Varna
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — On the 21st February some of the crew and beachmen on board the s.s. Varna, of London, which had been lying on Caister beach since stranding there on the 23rd January, hoisted a flag. A moderate gale had suddenly sprung...
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...