LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Magrix, of Hull, was at anchor off Spurn in a whole W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 19th October. At 11.40 A.M. she began to drift and went ashore on the Point. She was on a dead lee shore with the seas...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.31 on the morning of the 21st of October, 1953, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Nestos, of Piraeus, which was anchored in the River Humber, had wirelessed that three of her crew were adrift in a...

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. Barnsley, of Grimsby, stranded on the Scroby Sand at 7.30 A.M., on the 1st March, during a N.N.E. wind. A yawl went to her assistance; but during the time she was lying by the vessel, the Life-boatmen, fearing the sea might increase...

Between 7 and 8 A.M. on the 8th March a steamer was observed on the Formby Spit, and as the westerly wind was in- creasing the Coxswain launched the Life-boat John and Henrietta. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the...

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...

Workington, Cumberland. — On the 10th of July, 1952, the S.S. Clonlee, which had arrived off Workington from Algiers, laden with iron ore, radioed that she was short of food and asked for provisions. Her agents asked if the life-boat would...

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...