LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ringdove
At about 5 A.M. on the 16th November, in reply to signals of distress, the same Life-boat proceeded to the Middle Scroby Sand, and found the s.s. Ringdove, of Liverpool, ashore there in the midst of the breakers. With great difficulty and...
The S.S. Santa Rosa
RAMSGATE.—At 8 P.M. on the 26th November, during a fresh W.N.W. wind and a heavy sea, the Bradford Life-boat and steam-tug Aid went out, in reply to signals from the Gull lightship and found the s.s. Santa Rosa, of Gijon, ashore on the...
The S.S. Harfry
Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.20 early on the morning of the 30th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Harfry, of London, had been in collision with another ship be- tween the North Cockle buoy and Middle Caister buoy,...
The S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London
OCTOBER 11TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 4.35 in the morning the Whitby coastguard reported a message from Cullercoats wireless station that the S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London, bound for the Isle of Wight from Blyth, was...
The Helen Peele's Summer Cruise: 1927
By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.
[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...
Category: Articles
Ant of Boston
The Herbert Ingram life-boat at Skeg- ness saved 2 men from the sloop Ant, of Boston, which became a total wreck on Skegness Beach.
Duchess of Leith
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
The S.S. Atlantic Sea
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...
The S.S. Ben Maye
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster was ashore in Calf Sound. The coxswain had received a telephone message informing him of this...
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...