LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Muristan (1)
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
The S.S. Minerva
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 5.45 A.M. on the 16th February, and proceeded to the s.s. Minerva, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Quarry Point in a strong breeze from S. by E., a moderate sea,...
The S.S. Skarv
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru, of Sunderland.
The Newbiggin motor life-boat was also called...
The S.S. Cuban
Troon, Ayrshire.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that he had seen a red flare east of Kildonan. At 5.40 the life- boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow put out. The sea...
The S.S. Hankow
PLYMOUTH. — The Life-boat Clemency put off on the 9th February, during a very heavy S. gale, and rendered valuable assistance to the s.s. Hankow, of London, which was in a perilous position outside Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat conveyed...
The S.S. Cardiff Brook
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a badly injured man aboard the S.S. Cardiff Brook of London. A doctor had been taken...
The S.S. Ribblehead
Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.35 on the morning of the llth of December, 1959, a firm of shipping agents in- formed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Ribblehead, which had sailedon the morning tide from...
The S.S. Ford Fisher
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that he was keeping under observation a coaster on the east side of the River Wyre one and a half miles from the coastguard...
The S.S. Harvest Queen
Selsey, Sussex.—During the evening of the 15th November the coastguard reported red flares four miles S.W.
from the look-out. A strong W.S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat...
The S.S. Burrington Combe
MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of...