LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Alphald
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.35 A.M. on the 22nd October, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported by telephone that the Dutch steamer s.s. Alphald, of Rotterdam, was aground near the N.W.
Goodwins Buoy, close to the wrecked s.s....
The S.S. Caronilla
The No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at 8.45 A.M. on 9th November to the assistance of a steamer which had been reported ashore on the Kentish Knock Sand. The vessel proved to be the s.s.
Coronilla, of...
The S.S. Sabac
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th of May, 1953, the Staithes coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had gone aground on Kettleness Point in thick fog, and at 2.15 the life-boat Robert Patton—The Always Ready was...
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. Grane Fors
DOCTOR TAKEN TO PANAMANIAN STEAMER Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.10 on the evening of the 17th May, 1963, the coxswain superintendent was informed that the s.s. GraneForsof Panama, anchored off Spurn, had a sick man on board who needed medical...
The Russian S.S. Smolensk
ANKLE SET ON PASSAGE Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.18 a.m.
on i9th August, 1965, a message from a doctor was received saying that a man on board the Russian S.S. Smolensk of Riga had broken a leg and required a...
The S.S. Graiglas
DECEMBER 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.56 in the morning the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that two vessels appeared to be in danger, and twenty minutes later he asked that the life...
The S.S. Fawn
STRANDED STEAMER TOWED IN Appledore, Devon. — At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer was firing white rockets half a mile north-west of the Bar Buoy and the...
The S.S. Ford Fisher
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that he was keeping under observation a coaster on the east side of the River Wyre one and a half miles from the coastguard...
The S.S. Lady Anne
CAISTER.—Signal guns having been fired by the lightships, the Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at3 P.M. on the 10th January during a W.
wind and a very thick fog, and sailed to the south part of the Middle...