LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Pitwines
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
The S.S. Ardlethen
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Hearts of OaJc was launched at 12.7 p.m.
on the 17th March, signal guns having been heard in the direction of the Hasborough Sands apparently fired from the Would Light-Vessel. A dense fog...
The S.S. Bodil
The s.s. Bodll, of Esbjerg, was totally wrecked on the ! Haisborough Sands on the 27th May whilst bound from Sweden to South- | ampton with a cargo of timber. A i strong N.E. breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was rough. A...
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. Copeland
OCT. 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.45 P.M. the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands. The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3)...
The S.S. Onslow
— The s.s.
Onslow, of London, carrying crew of twenty-six hands, stranded at Kettle- ness Point during a dense fog on 12th August. She was loaded with coal at the time. Information of the accident reached Bunswick at 8 A.M....
The S.S. Fermanagh
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — 12th March. The motor life-boat J. and W.
was launched at 1.30 P.M. as the coastguard had reported that a vessel in Luce Bay was flying distress signals.
A strong S.E. gale was...