LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Lintie
BOAT WITHOUT LIGHTS OR SIGNALS Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 10.30 on the night of the 25th of April, 1947, information was received from the owner of a fleet of sand-boats that he was anxious about the safety of one of his smaller boats, the...
The S.S. Asse
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...
S.S. Storfors
FEBRUARY 28TH . - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Swedish S.S. Storfors, of Uddeholm, had been sunk in collision, and her crew had taken to the boats. They were seen to overturn, but. only an overcoat was found. Later it was...
The S.S. Perth
DEC. 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.17 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had stranded on the Long Sand about thirteen miles south-east of Clacton Pier. A W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 3...
The S.S. Minona
The s.s.
Mimona, of Predrikstad, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, on the 17th Septem- ber, whilst bound from Drammen to London with a cargo of wood pulp.
Information of the casualty reached Cromer...
The Lebanese S.S. Areti
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m.
on 2ist September, 1965, the honorary medical adviser informed the coxswain superintendent that the Lebanese S.S.
Areti off Spurn Point had a sick seaman on board who...
The S.S. Lindean
Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 10.4 on the night of the 8th of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that distress signals could be seen to the west of Macduff, and at 10.13 the motor life- boat, Civil Service No. 4, was...
The S.S. Dungonnell
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—The coastguard having informed the coxswain of the Life-boat Albert Edward, on the morning of the 2nd February, that signals had been fired by the Swin Middle Light-vessel, he summoned the crew, and at 5.30 the...
The S.S. Isabo
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
The S.S. Hamla
MAY 14TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.23 A.M. information was received through the coastguard from the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, that the S.S. Hamla, of London, was in distress about twenty miles from Selsey Bill in a south-easterly...