LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Newhall Hills
TANKER ON FIRE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.27 in the morning of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a message from the S.S. Newhall Hills, of San Francisco, that she was on fire to the southward of South Falls Buoy, the result of an ex...
S.S. Celerity
CROMER, NORFOLK.—A message by telephone having been received from Mundesley stating that the services of the Life-boat were required, on the 17th February, the Life-boat Benjamin Bond Cabbell was launched at 9 P.M. and found the s.s....
The S.S. Glendarroch
BARMOUTH AND PWLLHELI.—On the 15th March a vessel was reported ashore on St. Patrick's Causeway, while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.S.W. with a heavy sea. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Gibb was launched at 9 A.M. and boarded the...
The S.S. Febo
About 4 A.M.
during hazy weather on the 6th Feb- ruary, the s.s. Febo, of Genoa, bound for Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore, stranded on the rocks, and the Light- vessel in the vicinity commenced to fire signals. This...
The S.S. Gwynwood
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—Just after four in the afternoon of 21st October, 1939, a police inspector and ambulance men arrived at the life-boat station, and shortly afterwards a message was received from the coastguard that the...
The S.S. Dryburgh (1)
Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M.. a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west from Withernsea...
The S.S. Acaster
NEWBIGGIN, NOBIHTTMBKBLAND.—During a gale of wind from the S.8.E., and a very heavy rough sea on the 22nd of December, the s.s. Acaster, of Hartlepool, bound from Honfleur for Shields, in ballast, was observed ashore on Bridge Head, a mile...
S.S. Barnhill
AUGUST 13TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At about 1.30 in the afternoon the Langney Point coastguard telephoned that seven men working on the wreck of the S.S. Barnhill should be taken off at once.
A strong S.W....
The S.S. Copeland
About 7.30 A.M. on the 14th March, during a fog and misty rain, the s.s. Copeland, of Glasgow, bound from London to Southampton, stranded at Eastborough Head. In answer to signals of distress from the Owers Light-vessel and the steamer, the...
The S.S. Hankow
PLYMOUTH. — The Life-boat Clemency put off on the 9th February, during a very heavy S. gale, and rendered valuable assistance to the s.s. Hankow, of London, which was in a perilous position outside Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat conveyed...