LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Archmor
Boulmer, Northumberland. — Shortly after six in the evening of the llth of February, 1948, a vessel stranded on the rocks at Boulmer Head, one mile south-east of the life-boat station, and signalled for help. The motor life-boat Clarissa...
The S.S. Joseph Mitchell
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.45 on the night of the 8th of February, 1950, the S.S. Joseph Mitchell, of London, loaded with coal for Cork, was seen to be very close to the shore about one and a half miles south-west-by-west of Ballycotton. At...
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
The S.S. Jeannette
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.52 A.M.
on the 10th March the coastguard reported that the s.s. Jeannette, of Rotterdam, bound for Coleraine with a cargo of chemical manure, had been holed in trying to enter River Bann, and was...
The S.S. Dunleith
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—-At 7.15 A.M. on the 25th November, 1938, the life-boat assistant motor mechanic saw a vessel aground on Newcombe Sands. There was a heavy swell on the sands, and the sea was moderate, with a freshening S.S.E. wind. The...
The Lebanese S.S. Areti
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m.
on 2ist September, 1965, the honorary medical adviser informed the coxswain superintendent that the Lebanese S.S.
Areti off Spurn Point had a sick seaman on board who...
The S.S. Disperser
On the 7th February the s.s. Disperser, of West Hartlepool, was sinking, and the motor life-boat rescued one of the crew, but the coxswain received in- juries from which he died.—Rewards, Gold medal, with vellum, and £29 9s....
The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall, of Montreal, had been reported drifting, and the life-boat put out twice, but she could not find her. The news came through later that the crew had been rescued by...
The S.S. New Orporto
Palling and Cromer, Norfolk.—The s.s. New Oporto, of West Hartlepool, ! whilst bound from Middlesborough to London with a cargo of iron, on the 8th January, stranded on the Middle Haisborough Sands. The crew of the Palling Life-boat...
The S.S. Werner Kunstmann
At 7.30 A.M. on the 14th January the Coastguard reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel on the Goswick Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Edward and Eliza were promptly assembled, and the boat was transported for four...