LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Eumaeus
DEC. 11TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 5.5 P.M. messages were received at Dun Laoghaire that a large vessel was aground on the Kish Bank, and that two tugs were...
The S.S. Buccaneer
The s.s. Buccaneer, of West Hartlepool, carrying a crew of twenty-one hands, stranded on the North Scroby Sands on the 18th March.
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden proceeded to her assistance, and when she reached her the...
The S.S. Cogent
A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
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. Harlington
The s.s. Har- lington, of London, belonging to the P. and O. Company, stranded on the Gunfleet Sands, whilst bound from Middlesbrough to London laden with iron, on the 2nd December. At 2.30 P.M.
the...
The S.S. Ocklinge
On the morning of the 6th May it was reported that a distress signal had been hoisted on the s.s. Ocklinge, a steamer which had been wrecked on Lowland Point in March, 1932, and which had since been bought for breaking up. There were three...
The S.S. Pink Rose
Nov. 2ND. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 4.15 A.M. the motor life-boat At 4 A.M. the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress about four miles S.S.E. of the life-boat station. A southeasterly gale was...
The S.S. Holdernore
LANDING INJURED MEN Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.30 in the morning of Christmas Day, 1947, the Hartland Point coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Holder- nore, of Hull, that she wanted to land injured men. With a doctor on board...
The S.S. Eva Jeanette
SICK MAN ON BOARD St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 9.45 a.m. on 6th January, 1964, the Penlee honorary medical adviser informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Eva Jeanette, due off the Bishop's lighthouse at 5 p.m., had a sick...
The S.S. Irish Holly
IRISH DISTRICT Valentia, Co. Kerry-At 8.45 p.m.
on 22nd January, 1967, a large vessel was reported to have anchored in a very dangerousdangerous position in Loughkay. Weather conditions were too severe for the local pilot...