LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the evening of the 23rd November a steamer was reported to be ashore about a mile northward of Staithes. The Life-boat Hannah Somerset put off to her assistance, and found she was the s.s. Madeline, of West Hartlepool...

NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.52 A.M.

on the 10th March the coastguard reported that the s.s. Jeannette, of Rotterdam, bound for Coleraine with a cargo of chemical manure, had been holed in trying to enter River Bann, and was...

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.30 in the morning on the 10th of February, 1950, the harbour authorities reportedthat the s.s. Ribblebank, of Liverpool, was on the Lighthouse bank. Later she was reported to be loaded with 400 tons of calcium...

Humber, Yorkshire—At about 2.30 A.M. on the 29th August, 1938, a message was received from the Donna Nook coastguard that a vessel five miles S.S.E. was firing rockets. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather...

Penlee, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 13th of October, 1955, the Port Medical Officer reported that a man in the S.S. Manolito, of Costa Rica, had been injured. At 4.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched and went to Newlyn for a doctor...

Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 9.47 on the night of the 14th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had gone aground on East Scar rocks. At 10.10 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched. There was a heavy swell, with a light...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 30th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the S.S.

Hudson Bay, of London, had signalled that a man on board had fractured a thigh. She...