LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Barnhill
DECEMBER 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 4.55 A.M. the Fairlight coastguard reported that two soldiers were either stranded on the Regiment on the wreck. They had gone out in wreck of the S.S. Barnhill, off Langley Point, a...
The S.S. Gracehill
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 12.25 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Gracehill, of Belfast, had broken down to the north of Ayr Harbour, and was drifting towards Newton Rocks. At...
The S.S. Warren Field
Margate, Kent.— At 7.49 on the night of the 28th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned news from North Foreland Radio that a ship was aground on the east end of Margate Spit Sands. She was the S.S. Warren Field, of Liverpool,, on...
The S.S. Windsor Queen
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
The S.S. Pernambuco
On the night of the 22ud January the s.s. Pernamluco, of Liverpool, with a cargo of coal from j Hartlepool to Portsmouth, struck heavily on the Spit Rock, Hartlepool, as she was proceeding to sea. She got off, but as she was found to be...
The S.S. Valhalla
At 4.5 A.M. on the 1st March, a message was received stating that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton were assembled and the boat launched. On...
The S.S. Monarch
At 9.5 P.M. on the 2nd March the life-boat watchman reported that a steamer had drifted ashore on the Inner Binks. She was in a dangerous position, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched. A light, but freshening...
The S.S. Sverige
The s.s. Sverige, of Gefle, was mined when proceeding I through the Stanford Channel on the i 13th August. As the vessel commenced to settle down very rapidly, the Life- boat was launched with all expedition and proceeded to the assistance...
The S.S. Idlewild
On the 7th October, at about 1 A.M., a steamer, which proved to be the s.s. Idlewild, of Sunderland, coal-laden from the Tyne for London, appeared to have run aground on the north part of the Barber Sand. The coxswain of the Life-boat...
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...