LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Valga
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Valga of Lenin- grad had asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to attend to a seaman who had fallen down...
The S.S. Carmarthen Coast
Nov. 9TH. - SEAHAM, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 7.50 A.M. a message was received at Seaham from the coastguard that the S.S. Carmarthen Coast, of Liverpool bound, laden, from Kirkcaldy to London had struck a mine several miles to the east...
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. Spiral
The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched during a moderate N.W. breeze and heavy ground swell on the 20th March, in answer to signals of distress from the s.s. Spiral, of Christiania. The vessel had stranded on the rocks whilst bound from...
The S.S. Georgie
10,000-TON STEAMER HELPED Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 9.36 in the morning of the 15th of April, 1947, the Foreland coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Atherfield coastguard that a vessel was ashore 400 yards west...
The S.S. Cairnavon
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of the 4th of September.
1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the lighthouse-keeper at South Gare that a vessel had gone ashore in the River Tees....
The S.S. Tartar
MAY 9 T H . - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. The S.S. Tartar, of Sligo, had stopped off Dunmore for examination.
She had not dropped anchor, but drifted to the S.W. round the headland. She was kept under observation, and was...
The S.S. Goteborg
FEBRUARY 10TH . - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. At 11.24 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Fifeness. The night was calm, with a light northerly wind, but the wind freshened later, with squalls of snow. The motor life-boat Nellie and...
The S.S. Margareta
Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
S.S. Antonio
MARCH 28TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A telephone message was received at five in the afternoon from the naval base at Milford Haven that the S.S. Antonio had been in collision near Milford Buoy. A southsouth- west wind was...