LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Southport
Caister, Norfolk. —At 11.14 in the afternoon, on the 17th of March, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was on the Barber Sands. At 1.30 the life- boat Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a moderate south- westerly...
The S.S. Le Blanc
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 21st February the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey was launched in a nasty sea, with a moderate N.N.E. breeze, and stood by the s.s. Le Blanc, which had stranded near the Bell Buoy. At high water the...
The S.S. Iris
MARCH 18TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.14 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Holyhead, through the coastguard, that a vessel was on fire. A later message gave her position as 19 miles W.S.W.
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The S.S. Amcott
. — Early on the morning of the 2nd January, during a strong W.S.W.
breeze and heavy sea, large flare lights were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, and the Lightships fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat...
The S.S. Salvinia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.44 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in distress off Tollesbury pier in the River Blackwater, and that people were shouting for...
The S.S. Monte Nuria
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.32 in the morning of the 25th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Monte Nuria, of Bilbao, bound from Immingham to Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, was aground at Sheringham. She had struck a sub-...
The S.S. Kittiwake
WHITHORN, N.B.—The s.s. Kittiwake, of Carlisle, while leaving Whithorn Harbour, at about 11.15 P.M. on the 6th March, during a fresh S. breeze, got her steering gear foul, and stranded on the Screens Rocks. The coxswain of the Life-boat,...
The S.S. Basalt
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. — At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1955, the life-boat motor me- chanic reported that the S.S. Basalt,which had been unloading scrap from a wreck, had gone aground on Salt Scar Rocks. At three...
The S.S. Castillo Tordesillas
Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the morn- ing of the 1st of February, 1953, a steamer which had been driven on to the breakwater in a strong north- westerly gale with a rough sea, fired distress rockets. At 4.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left...
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...