LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. English Trader
Torbay, Devon.—On the 23rd January the s.s. English Trader, of London, ran ashore at the entrance of DartmouthHarbour. The motor life-boat George Shee rescued the fifty-two men on board. Rewards : Bronze second service clasp, vellums, letter...
The S.S. Anatolian
NEW BRIGHTON.—A steam-tug came to the New Brighton landing-stage at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 12th February, for the Life-boat, as there was 'a steamer ashore on the Askew Bank. The wind was blowing strongly from the S., and...
The S.S. Lona
Margate, Kent.—At 11.2 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling with flags that she re- quired a boat. At 11.10 the life-boat Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1,...
The S.S. Baron Elibank
Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor...
The S.S. Escurial
HAYLE, CORNWALL. — The Life-boat K F. Harrison was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Escurial, of Glasgow, |which, having been disabled in a heavy gale, drifted ashore off Portieath. on the 25th January. The boat was taken on her...
The S.S. Voltaic
NEW BRIGHTON.—The steam Life-boat Queen left her moorings at 6.50 P.M. on the 2nd January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., with squalls and a very heavy sea, in response to signals of distress which had been shown in the direction...
The S.S. Surreybrook
THIS account of a service by the Tynemouth life-boat in September, 1949, should have appeared among the services for that month in The Life-boat for December of last year.
On the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1949,...
The S.S. Benwick
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—In thick weather, a strong S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 4th February, a large steamer—the s.s. Benwick, of Newcastle —stranded on the " Runnel Stone" and subsequently became a total wreck. It was soon...
The S.S. Haakon
At about 6 A.M. on the 20th April, signals were heard denoting a vessel was on the Haisboro' Sands. The No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, was launched, and with the assistance of a friendly tow by a passing steamer, reached the vessel...
The Danish S.S. Niord
CULLERCOATS.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January, the Life-boat Go-operator No.
was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the Danish s.s. Niord, bound from Copenhagen for the Tyne with a general cargo, which had stranded...