LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Joseph Mitchell
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.45 on the night of the 8th of February, 1950, the S.S. Joseph Mitchell, of London, loaded with coal for Cork, was seen to be very close to the shore about one and a half miles south-west-by-west of Ballycotton. At...
The S.S. Essex Lance
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
The S.S. Napier
TYNEMOUTH.—At about 12.45 P.M. on the 25th May alarm guns were fired from the Spanish Battery indicating a vessel in distress. Crowds of people at once rushed to places from which the harbour could be seen, and observed that a steamer was...
The S.S. Louisiana
At 5.45 on the morning of the 2nd June the Coastguard at Blyth received informa- tion, by telephone that a steamer was ashore on the rocky beach at Seaton Sluice, about four miles to the south of Blyth Harbour. The message was at once passed...
The S.S. Minona
The s.s.
Mimona, of Predrikstad, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, on the 17th Septem- ber, whilst bound from Drammen to London with a cargo of wood pulp.
Information of the casualty reached Cromer...
The S.S. Hansa
Boulmer, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 20th March the lights of a vessel were seen through the haze to the S.E. of Boulmer. Shortly afterwards she struck the rocks at Boulmer Steel, and made signals of distress. A freshening...
The S.S. Shaw
THURSO AND WICK, CUTHNESS-SHIRE.— While a moderate breeze was blowing from 8., accompanied by a rough sea, on the 2nd May, the coxswain of the Wick Life-boat received notice, at 6.30 A.M., that a steamer was aground at the back of the North...
The S.S. Ring
On the 26th November the s.s. Ring, of Gothen- burg, with a crew of nineteen, bound from Runcorn to Sweden with a cargo of salt, was caught in a moderate S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, driven off her course, and forced to seek...
The S.S. Ida
The s.s. Ida, of Haugesand, on the 27th March, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, whilst bound from Newcastle to Rouen with a cargo of coal. A message was received from the Haisborough Light-vessel, reporting the casualty at about 6.15...
The S.S. Wirral Bank
Margate, Kent. — On the 22nd of March, 1951, the motor vessel Teal wirelessed that she was standing by the S.S. Wirral Bank, of London, in distress fifty-two miles north-east of North Foreland, with a crew of nine.
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