LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Miguel, of Bilbao
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...
The S.S. Oakford and Recovery
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life- boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 1.40 A.M.
on llth November in response to infor- mation received through the Coast- guard that the Newarp Lightvessel had...
The S.S. Corcrest, of London
MARCH 7TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
About 4.30 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that Humber Radio had picked up a message from the S.S. Corcrest, of London.
She was aground on the Haisborough Sands and...
The S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
The S.S. Strombus
OCTOBER 26TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The S.S. Strombus, of Tonsberg, Norway, had struck a mine, but she was beached by tugs. - Rewards, £15 6s.
The S.S. Charlotte Schroder (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey: and Torbay, Devon.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 4th of August, 1950, it was reported to the St. Peter Port life-boat authorities that the S.S. Charlotte Schroder, of Hamburg, had had a boiler explosion, severely...
The S.S. River Humber (1)
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
The S.S. Roumelian & The S.S. Nazaire
At 5.40 P.M. on 15th May the Ventnor Coastguard telephoned Brooke and Yarmouth that the s.s. Roumelian, of Liverpool, bound laden from London to Alexandria, had been in collision with the s.s. St. Nazaire about twenty- four miles S.E. by E....
The S.S. Coral Sea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.10 in the morning of the 17th of February, 1948, the motor life-boat S.G.E. put out, with a doctor on board, to the s.s.
Coral Sea, of New York, bound in ballast from Southampton to New...
S.S. Royal Crown
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...