LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Watford
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey, was launched at 2.5 A.M. on 20th March, in a light N.W.
breeze, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the s.s. Wafford, of London, was aground on Haisborough Sands. The...
The S.S. Ben Avon
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY.—During a terrific gale from W. by S. at about 10 A.M. on the 20th January, a steamer was observed apparently in distress. The Dickinson Edleston Life-boat went to her assistance, and found that she was the s.s. Ben Avon, of...
The S.S. Lesrix
Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.13 on the morning of the 4th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen drifting fourteen miles off Portland Bill and that a Shackleton aircraft was circling the...
The S.S. St. Walburg
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Eastbourne coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station that the S.S. St. Walburg, of Groningen, which was about one mile south of...
The S.S Toran
Aith, Shetland.—At 7.15 A.M. on the 24th January the Lerwick post office telephoned a message received from Wick Radio Station that the s.s.
Toran, of Hamburg, sheltering in St.
Magnus Bay, was calling for...
The S.S. Thule
Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was...
The S.S. Lady Grey
The same Life-boat was launched five days later in conjunction with her consort, the Robert and Mary Ellis, to the help of the s.s. Lady Grey of West Hartlepool, which had stranded on Whitby Bocks about half a mile from the West Pier head....
The S.S. Beresford (1)
WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy...
The S.S. Achilles
HARWICH and ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been fired by the Cork Lightvessel, the Harwich steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Boat in tow, went out at 4 A.M., on the 20th October, proceeded to the Light-ship, and was...
The S.S. India
During the afternoon of the 6th August signals of distress were heard from the direction of Duncansbay Head; a dense fog pre- vailed at the time, with a north-east swell. The crew of the Life-boat Ida were immediately assembled...