LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Inger Jokann
At 8.15 r.M. on the 5th December Coxswain Haylett was informed that a vessel was ashore on the Scroby Sands and showing signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life- boat, Covent Garden, were at once assembled and the boat proceeded to...
The S.S. Fairway
HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 10th October a heavy gale from the N.N.E. was experienced. The coxswain of the Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat, the John Clay Barlow, was at the pilots' watch house at about seven o'clock, when it was...
The S.S. Torredon
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co.
Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly...
The S.S. St Patrick
5th August.
S.S. St. Patrick struck a rock. Help given by another steamer.—Rewards, £9 Is..
The S.S. Roldal
GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.
by S., the sea was very heavy and the...
The S.S. Cordale
MARCH 5TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.15 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Marske that a steamer was firing distress rockets four miles east of Marske. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. At...
The S.S. Hilary
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.22 in the morning of 9th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the 7,000-tons s.s.
Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward bound from Brazil to Liverpool with general...
The S.S. Lairdsbank
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 3.20 A.M. on the 6th April the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore N.E. of Crammag Head. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a thick fog. The new motor lifeboat Jeanie Speirs was...
The S.S. Kentbrook
Aldeburgh Suffolk.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 4th of February, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore two miles north of Orfordness. At 8.40 the No.
1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched. There...
The S.S. Holdernook
ANOTHER STEAMER ASHORE IN FOG Newburgb, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.18 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, the Collieston coastguard re- ported a vessel ashore near Hackley Bay Head in thick fog. The motor life-boat John Rybwn was launched...