LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Fireglow
NOVEMBER 8TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX During the afternoon the naval base at Brightlingsea reported that two steamers were sinking in the West Swin. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
The S.S. Hamilton
On the 27th Feb- ruary the s.s. Hamilton, of Stranraer, bound light from Port William to Maryport, was overtaken by bad weather, and dropped anchor in Port Yerrick bay. A whole southerly gale was blowing, with rain and snow, and a very heavy...
The S.S. Alice Bowater
At 10.3 p.m. on 30th March, 1968, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Alice Bowater had a sick man aboard suffering from acute abdominal pain. The vessel was then about 120 miles east of Spurn head.
Arrangements were made...
The S.S. Skarv (1)
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. Brinkburn
The S.S. Brinkburn; of London, with twenty- two men on board, whilst bound from Antwerp to Cardiff in ballast on the 24th February, stranded on the Good- win Sands near the S.E. buoy. The weather at the time was threatening, and the Charles...
The S.S. Olavus
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 26th January the coastguard reported that rockets had been seen by the Lynn Wells lightship from a steamer aground on the Dog's Head Sands. She was the s.s. Olavus, of Hull, bound in ballast...
The S.S. Red Rose
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th July, during a thick fog, the s.s. Red Rose, of Cardiff, grounded on the Hasborough Sand. Some yawls went to her assistance, but finding that these boats did not return, and that the vessel still...
The S.S. Ellerbeck
At 10 A.M.
\ on the 15th August information was \ received, by telephone, from the Smalls I Lighthouse that a steamer had gone ashore on the "Hats and Barrels" Rock.
The motor Life-boat...
The S.S. Corchester and S.S. Cormull
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.44 on the morning of the 19th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corchester, of London, had collided with another vessel two miles west of Haisboro' lightvessel, and that the CorcJiester...
The S.S. Stancourt
JANUARY 30TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 1.45 P.M. the Carnoustie coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Abertay Sands, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong gale was blowing from the south-east, with a...