LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Radstock
MAY 6TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At about 5 P.M. the life-boat coxswain heard a ship sounding “ V ” in morse on her whistle, ” I need assistance “, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 6.30 P.M. A strong northerly...
The S.S. Vulcan
At 9. A.M. on the 25th March during a strong W.
gale, with very heavy sea, a vessel was observed in difficulties about two miles from the middle Hasborough Sands, and soon after she was blown within half a mile of the sands...
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. Linwood
OCT. 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. - At about 11.10 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be in distress a mile S.E. of the station. The report was confirmed, and the No. 2 motor life-boat, Harriot Dixon, was launched by...
The S.S. Dan
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — On the morning of the 29th March signals of distress were sent up by the s.s. Dan, of Copenhagen, which had stranded on theSow and Figs rocks a little to the eastward of Blyth Harbour, and in response the Life-boats...
The S.S. Taxiarchis
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 3.22 in the afternoon of the 14th of January, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a vessel was aground on the West Scar, and at 3.45 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate westerly breeze, with a...
The S.S. Akka
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9.46 on the night of the 9th of April, 1956, the Port- patrick coastguard reported that the S.S. Akka, of Gothenburg, had wire- lessed that she had gone aground on the Gantock Rocks, Dunoon, and that she was sinking. At...