LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Enterprise
The s.s. En- terprise, of Cardiff, loaded with coal, stranded on " Cowbar Steel," off Staithes, about 11 P.M. on the 16th June. The cobles belonging to the place went off to her assistance, but finding the conditions of weather...
The S.S. Windsor Castle
Soon after i 2 A.M. on the 22nd July the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was ! aroused and informed that signal guns 1 were being fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. The crew were assembled I and the boat launched. ...
The S.S. Bannrose
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.2 on the evening of the 6th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bannrose, of Liverpool, was in distress between B.I and B.2 buoys at the bar of the River Mersey, with her...
The S.S. Stranmore
GAVE A COURSE IN THE FOG Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 27th of March, 1947, the Tara coastguard sent a warning message that a small vessel appeared to be in danger near Butter Pladdy Buoy.
The weather...
The S.S. Olefoss
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 20th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to have broken away from two tugs which had been towing her. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett...
The S.S. Cameroon
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
The S.S. Cameroon (1)
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
The S.S. Rutgers Victory
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore on the west end of the Pentland Skerries.
At 4.30 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was...
The S.S. Wimbledon
On the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham, Norfolk, life-boat rescued eighteen survivors from the S.S. Wimbledon. For this service the silver medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain H. E. West and the bronze medal to Motor Mechanic E....
The S.S. Baron Berwick
SOS FROM HULL Humber, Yorkshire. At about 4.50 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from the Hull agents of the S.S. Baron Berwick asking if a doctor could be taken to the ship as there was a sick man on board...