LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Castle Galleon
The Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 4.40 A.M. on 28th February, in a fresh easterly gale with a very heavy sea, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the St.
Nicholas...
The S.S. Archmor
Boulmer, Northumberland. — Shortly after six in the evening of the llth of February, 1948, a vessel stranded on the rocks at Boulmer Head, one mile south-east of the life-boat station, and signalled for help. The motor life-boat Clarissa...
The S.S. Lynburn
Wicklow.
ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat...
The S.S. Rocquaine
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 9.40 in the morning of the 24th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S.
Rocquaine, of Guernsey, had reported an explosion on board. She was on fire, and her master had been badly burnt...
The S.S. Emma
At about 11.30 P.M. on the 9th Decem- ber distress signals were made from the Long Stone Lighthouse, and the Life- boat Forster Fawsett was speedily launched. When about two miles out the Life-boat fell in with a steam yacht belonging to the...
The S.S. Rutgers Victory
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore on the west end of the Pentland Skerries.
At 4.30 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was...
The S.S. Therese
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 12.15 A.M. on the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that a steamer had run ashore about a quartei of a mile south of the West Pier. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.
The motor...
The S.S. Alnmouth
At 6.30 P.M. on the 11 th November, information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares N. by W. from the Fore Ness Signal Station. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were promptly assembled and the...
The S.S. Laleham
CAISTER.—On the 4th June a dense fog prevailed. It lifted at times, and in one of the intervals the look-out man observed a large steamer in close proximity to the Scroby Sand, and signalguns were fired from the Cookie and St. Nicholas Light...
The S.S. New Verdun
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At about 6 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel in distress and burning flares N.E. of House Sand Fort. She was the s.s. New Verdun,of Plymouth, bound from Middlesbrough for Portsmouth...