LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A telephone message was received from the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th January that the s.s. Jersey City, of Bideford, had broken down and was in distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock.

Preparations to launch the...

ROKER.—The Life-boat William Hedley put off at 12.20 P.M. on the 21st January to the assistance of the s.s. Manhattan, of London, bound from Hull for SunderJand with oil, which had stranded between Eoker Pier and the North Pier in a strong N...

AUGUST 2 8 T H . - B A L T I M O R E , C O .CORK. The S.S.. Gothland. of Leith. had been sunk by enemy action, and part, of the crew had landed on Dursey Island. The captain and eighteen men were making for land farther north A search was...

Nov. 15TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX, AND B E M B R I D G E , I S L E O F W I G H T . A t 4.9 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Alaska, of Havre, a steamer of 8,000 tons, was in distress fourteen miles S.E. of the Owers...

At 2.30 p.m. on 8th July, 1966, two vessels were said to have collided in Crosby channel. The life-boat Norman B.

Corlett left her moorings at 2.50 in a gentle north-westerly wind and a slight sea. She proceeded to the...

BRIDLINGTON.—At about 11.30 A.M. on the 24th December the s.s. Allerwash, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, landed four men from the S.S. Union, of Flensburg, and reported that the latter vessel was on fire, and had lost her propeller, seven miles from...

The Life-boat John was launched at 4.40 A.M. on the 14th February, and rescued the crew of twenty-four of the s.s. Antonio, of Bilbao. The vessel had stranded on the North Rock and, when the Life- boat reached her, it was hoped that it would...

FEBRUARY 20TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. Survivors of the S.S. Steinstad, of Oslo, which had been torpedoed on the 16th February, had reached land in one of the ship’s boats, and reported that another boat was missing, but the life-boat’s...