LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. May
At 1.15 A.M. on 23rd November a telephone message was received stating that the lights of a vessel ashore off Ballyfrenis Point were seen. As this is a very dangerous part of the coast, the Motor Life-boat William and Mary proceeded to...
The S.S. Jamaica Progress
AU G U S T 1 S T . - B A R R A I S L A N D , HEBRIDES. At 2.30 A.M. a telegram was received from the coastguard at Kyle that a ship’s boat under sail with men on board had been seen at 9.30 P.M. the night before, five miles from Barra Head....
Denbigh Coast and the S.S. Irish Maple
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.18 on the night of the 18th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred between the coaster Denbigh Coast and the s.s. Irish Maple one mile east of the Formby...
The S.S. Mathilda
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 12th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had warned off a vessel in a dangerous position one and a half miles south by west of the Goodwin Lightvessel, and at...
The S.S. Grosvenor
— The s.s. Grosvenor, of Newcastle, bound light from Port Knockie to Sunderland, struck the rocks at Emmanuel Head early on the morning of the 20th Decem- ber. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The night was very dark,...
The S.S. Dungonnell
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—The coastguard having informed the coxswain of the Life-boat Albert Edward, on the morning of the 2nd February, that signals had been fired by the Swin Middle Light-vessel, he summoned the crew, and at 5.30 the...
The S.S. Cantick Head
FEBRUARY 11TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.35 in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a vessel at sea was signalling by morse lamp, and a few minutes later that the signal was for a doctor. The life-boat John and...
The S.S. Sea Venture
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 2.10 P.M.
** on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the senior naval officer that the s.s. Sea Venture had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that...
The S.S. Rynana
JANUARY 22ND. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 10.55 A.M. a message was received at Ramsgate from the coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Brilliant had reported that the S.S. Rynana, of Limerick, was aground a mile west of the East Goodwins Light...
The S.S. Meadowfield
During a moder- ately thick fog in the early morning of the 10th December the s.s. Meadowfield, of Glasgow, stranded on the rocks about a quarter of a mile to the east of Red- car Pier. It was very dark at the time, all the lights on the...