LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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. Firth Fisher
MAY 22ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.30 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer anchored near the South Goodwins had on board four survivors from the S.S. Firth Fisher, of Barrow. She had been mined and had sunk. The...
The S.S. Fulham II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.45 in the evening of the 10th of December, 1948, the police telephoned that North Foreland radio station had reported the s.s. Fulham II, of London, one mile north-east of Britannia Pier, with a...
The S.S. Florence Cooke
Moelfre, Anglesey. — About 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of July, 1949, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a man was adrift in a dinghy one mile east of Point Lynas, and at 8.45 the life-boat G.W. was launched, in a light...
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. 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. Margo
MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...
The S.S. Wirral Bank
Margate, Kent. — On the 22nd of March, 1951, the motor vessel Teal wirelessed that she was standing by the S.S. Wirral Bank, of London, in distress fifty-two miles north-east of North Foreland, with a crew of nine.
About...
The S.S. Monkwood
At 4.20 A.M.
on the 20th January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard report- ing that a vessel was ashore at Thorpe- ness. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Dresden was launched and found the s.s. Monkwood, of...
The S.S. lano
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a steamer anchored in Sandown Bay appeared to be dragging. The life-boat crew were alerted, and half an hour...