LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Dominion
NEW BRIGHTON AND FOBMBY.—Messages by telephone were received at these Life-boat stations on the evening of the 7th March stating that a steamer had stranded and was in need of assistance.
At 6.17 the New Brighton Steam Life...
The S.S. Reading
During moderately fine weather on the 6th November the s.s. Beading, of Cardiff stranded on the Cannon Rock, whilsl bound from Seville to Glasgow, with a cargo of iron ore. Information of the easualty reached Cloughey at aboul 8 P.M., and...
The S.S. Olympos
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10.45 on the morning of the 17th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the s.s. Olympos, of Greece, had a sick man aboard and would be off Penlee about 12.45. She had requested medical help. At 11.30 the...
The S.S. Commar
OCT. 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 6.46 A.M.
the Gorleston coastguard reported a message received from Yarmouth that a vessel had apparently grounded on the Scroby Sands.
A light S.W....
The S.S. Baron Inverclyde
DOCTOR TAKEN TO STEAMER IN FOG Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 27th January, 1962, a firm of shipping agents in Barrow told the honorary secretary that the s.s.
Baron Inverclyde of Ardrossan, bound for...
The S.S. Hubert
14th October. During a whole N.W.-gale, with a very heavy sea, an S O S was received from the s.s. Hubert, which was being towed to Troon to be broken up. The life-boat put out at 11.5 P.M., and searched unsuccessfully until 2...
The S.S. Erica
Islay, Inner Hebrides. — During the early afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the Kilchoman coastguard re- ported a vessel in difficulties three miles west-north-west of Smaull Point, and at 1.15 the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth,...
The S.S. Argos Hill
Clovelly, Devonshire.—On the 24th October, 1939, at 3.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard station that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles S.W. of Lundy Island.
A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing,...
The S.S. Gorsefield
AUGUST 8TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At about 3.40 A.M. the ScarletPoint, Castletown, coastguard reported a vessel aground a quarter of a mile from Castletown breakwater. A strong southerly wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Charlotte Schroder
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...