LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Belgia
JANUARY 27TH. 29TH. and 30TH. FEBRUARY 1ST and 14TH, and April 21ST and 28TH..- WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. On Sunday the 20th January the S.S. Belgia, of Gothenburg, was bombed by German aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and...
The S.S. Kernoozer
MARCH 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
About 12.35 in the morning a message came from the Bridlington coastguard that distress rockets had been seen at Hornsea, eleven miles south of Bridlington, and at 1 A.M. the motor...
The S.S. Nebarn (2)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...
The S.S. Naess Falcon
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 19th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Falcon of Monrovia, had a sick man on board. At 1.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson,...
The Norwegian S.S. Royal and the British S.S. Yewdale
MARCH 5TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
Two laden steamers, the Norwegian S.S. Royal and the British S.S. Yewdale, were lying off Hartlepool in a very rough sea, with a strong easterly wind blowing, and heavy snow storms, and the...
The S.S. Ardgantock
On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...
The S.S. Glenravel
The new Motor Life-boat Lady Rallies, which had been stationed at Fraserburgh as recently as July, was called upon to per- form her first service on the 8th August.
Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning an...
The S.S. Dynamo
FEBRUARY 27TH a n d 2 8TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 9.30 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that the S.S. Dynamo, of Hull, was aground on North Bank. She was...
The S.S. Teddington
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NOVEMBER 6TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The S.S. Teddington, of London, with a valuable cargo on board, had been attacked by German aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew had been taken off by a naval vessel and the steamer had...
The S.S. Jetblack
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 4.20 on the morning of the 16thof February, 1951, the coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Jetblack, of Lon- don, anchored a quarter of a mile from harbour, had signalled. She had...