LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Belle
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 31st January the s.s. Belle, lightship tender, while returning to Wexford from the Lucifer Shoal Light-vessel, in a moderate breeze, with a moderate sea and thick weather at times, grounded on the E, end of the...
The S.S. Argos Hill
OCT. 24TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
SHIRE. At 3.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard station that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles S.W. of Lundy Island. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
The S.S. Lady Windsor
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 24th October, 1937, the motor life-boat rescued the. crew of five of the s.s. Lady Windsor, of Cardiff.—Rewards, Bronze medal, vellums and money awards amounting to £37 6s, 6d.
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The S.S. Plawsworth
On the 17th January the s.s. Plawsworih, of Newcastle, stranded off Workington, and thirteen of the crew were rescued by the motor life-boat.—Rewards, bronze medal, thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and monetary rewards...
The S.S. Swan
The s.s-. Swan, of Sunderland, whilst bound from Havre to the Tyne, stranded on the 28th March about 50 yards to the westward of Rye Harbour. There was a moderate W.S.W. gale at the time, and the sea was heavy. The coastguard watchman having...
The S.S. Maja
WITHERNSEA.—The s.s. Maja, of Copenhagen, having stranded about two miles N. of the pier at Withernsea on the 7th January, the Life-boat Admiral Sous proceeded to her assistance at 6.15 A.M.
The wind was blowing from the...
The S.S. Bluestone
Workington, Cumberland.—At noon on the 13th of September, 1952, a radio signal was received from the S.S. Blue- stone, of London, which was anchored off Workington that a member of her crew needed medical help. The life- boat N.T. was...
The S.S. Teeswood
Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat had been reported in diffi- culties one mile off Tankerton. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
The S.S. Arabian
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 7th October the s.s. Arabian, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Gibraltar with a general cargo, went ashore about a mile and a half westward of the East Mouse, near Bull Bay, during a dense fog...
The S.S. Lady Eglington
WORKINGTON.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th December, the Life-boat Dodo was launched, signals of distress having been shown by the s.s. Lady Eglington, of and from Cardiff for Workington, with a cargo of coke, which had stranded on the north shore,...