LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Hilda
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 3.10 A.M.
on the 29th August, 1939, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on May Island. The weather was very thick, with a light easterly breeze and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat Nellie and...
The S.S. Maja
WITHERNSEA.—The s.s. Maja, of Copenhagen, having stranded about two miles N. of the pier at Withernsea on the 7th January, the Life-boat Admiral Sous proceeded to her assistance at 6.15 A.M.
The wind was blowing from the...
The S.S. Domingo de Larrinaga
Teesmouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 5.3 in the morning of the 25th of December, 1950, the South Gare coast- guard telephoned the Teesmouth life- boat station that a ship was believedto be ashore on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the...
The S.S. Empire Flamingo
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the tug Superman asking for the life-boat to take four men off a sinking hulk three miles south of...
The S.S. Boadicea
In consequence of a telegram from Margate that the Tongue lightship was tiring for assistance, the Bradford Lifeboat and steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour at midnight on the 6th December, during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and a...
The S.S. Plawsworth
On the 17th January the s.s. Plawsworih, of Newcastle, stranded off Workington, and thirteen of the crew were rescued by the motor life-boat.—Rewards, bronze medal, thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and monetary rewards...
The S.S. Bluestone
Workington, Cumberland.—At noon on the 13th of September, 1952, a radio signal was received from the S.S. Blue- stone, of London, which was anchored off Workington that a member of her crew needed medical help. The life- boat N.T. was...
The S.S. Lake Nepigon
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A ship's life-boat full of people came ashore 'at 9 A.M. on the 1st September. The officer in charge of her reported that she was from the s.s. Lake Nepigon, of Montreal, which had stranded on Arklow Bank, and that...
The S.S. Karuma
The S.S. Karuma, of Hamburg, ran on to the rocks about half a mile north of New- biggin Point, during a very thick fog, on 13th October, whilst bound from Hamburg to the Tyne. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was immediately launched and proceeded to...
The S.S. Gracehill
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 12.25 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Gracehill, of Belfast, had broken down to the north of Ayr Harbour, and was drifting towards Newton Rocks. At...