LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Kentbrook
Aldeburgh Suffolk.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 4th of February, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore two miles north of Orfordness. At 8.40 the No.
1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched. There...
The S.S. Pilcomayo
DOCTOR TAKEN TO BADLY INJURED SEAMAN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th April, 1962, the police at Avonmouth dock informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board a ship...
The S.S. Cambank
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 20th February, during calm smooth weather, Coxswain Jones of the Life-boat James Cullen received a telephone message from the Coastguard asking him to launch the Life-boat as quickly as possible as...
The S.S. Matra
NOV. 13TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.54 P.M. a messagc was received from the coastguard that a vessel was burning flares near the Tongue Light-vessel. A fresh S.W.
breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth.
At...
The S.S.. Binnendijk
OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...
The S.S. Empire Parsons
JANUARY 12TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.34 P.M. the Kirkwall coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the east side of Stroma, and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 10.15 P.M. A S.S.E.
gale...
The S.S. Sado
DECEMBER 7TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. In the early morning a north-westerly gale, between 80-90 miles an hour, was blowing, with a very heavy sea and showers of rain and hail, and at 2.30 a steam drifter, with no one on board, broke...
The S.S. Albionic (1)
MARCH 19TH. - CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.10 A.M. a message from the coastguard, Hartland Point, was received at Clovelly that a steamer was on fire six miles north of the point. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
The S.S. Cambrian Coast
COLLIER HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.50 in the morning of February 10th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that North Fore- land Radio had picked up a call for help from a vessel in the Lowestoft area.
A...
S.S. Halizones
OCT. 19TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. A message was received that a British steamer, S.S. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched, news came that...