LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Amulet
At 7 A.M.
on the 3rd December, intelligence was treceived that a large vessel was ashore in Druridge Bay. The crew of the Algernon and Eleanor Life-boat were at once called together, horses were sent for, and the Life-boat...
The S.S. Brilliant
JAN. 30TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The Berry had bee Head coastguard reported that rockets ward.
n seen about eight miles to the east- A moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 8.55 P.M. the motor life-boat...
The S.S. Russula
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 13th of May, 1057, a shipping agent telephoned the life- boat coxswain to say that a seaman on board the S.S. Russula, of Genoa, which was anchored off Lightning Knoll buoy, had fallen down...
The S.S. Guildford
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.44 early on the morning of the 10th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Guildford, of London, had been in collision three miles north of Whitby.
He later gave the position as...
The S.S. Okeanis
Penlee, Cornwall. On the 27th December, 1961, news was received at the life-boat station that the s.s. Okeanis of Piraeus, which was bound for Lon- don, had a sick man on board who needed a doctor. At 6.10 the life-boat Solomon Browne was...
The S.S. West Hika
Seaham, Durham.—On the evening of the 15th January the s.s. West Hika, of Mobile, U.S.A., sent out a wireless call for help. She was a vessel of over three thousand tons, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and had gone...
The S.S. Wexfordian
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 8th March it was learned that the s.s. Wexfordian, of Wexford, which had been aground on South Dogger Bank since the 29th February, was in need of help. A strong N.E. by E. breeze was...
The S.S. Claus Horn
During the evening of 3rd November, in a terrific S.W. gale, the s.s. Glaus Horn, of Lubeck, wag driven ashore on the Gaa Bank at the mouth of the river Tay. A telephone message was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria, stating that a...
The S.S. Speke
. JANUARY 1 0TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.45 P.M. the lights were seen of a ship ashore on Gansey Point, about half a mile N.E. of Port St. Mary breakwater, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was launched at 8.30 P.M. A...
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...