LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Tanafjord
MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat...
The S.S. Heelsum
Soon after 11 A.M. on the 18th January telephone messages reached both Brix- ham and Torquay, stating a large steamer was making signals of distress between four and five miles to the N.E. of Berry Head. The Life-boats Betsey Newbon and...
The S.S. Governor
DECEMBER 6TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.15 A.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported a steamer drifting in the Queens Channel, but not in need of help at that time. A heavy westerly gale was blowing, with a wild and confused sea, and the...
The S.S. Fridtjof Nansen
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick seaman on board the S.S. Fridtjof Nansen, of Kristiansand, Norway. The Norwegian steamer...
The S.S. Harmattan
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured man off the S.S. Harmattan.
The...
The S.S. Peruviana
The Life- boat, Ulinor Roget, was launched at 4.30 A.M. on the 9th February, in re- sponse to signals from the s.s. Peruuiana, of West Hartlepool.
On arrival at the vessel, it transpired that the rudder had been damaged,...
The S.S. Batoum
Aldeburgh and Southwold, Suffolk.— At about 8 A.M. on the 18th July, an explosion was observed on a large steamer abreast of Southwold, and it was reported that she had been tor- pedoed. As some of the crew were observed leaving the...
The S.S. Hawthorn
At 1.15 in the afternoon of 5th January, when a whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with rain and a heavy sea, the Coxswain noticed that the s.s. Hawthorn, of Liverpool, which was at anchor in Ramsey Bay, was signalling that a doctor was wanted...
S.S. Paris
FEBRUARY 15TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 6.45 A.M . the coastguard reported a vessel in distress at Robin Hood’s Bay, and at 7.30 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
A light S.E. wind was blowing,...
The S.S. Africa Occidental
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had fired guns to warn a vessel approaching the Sands.
A few minutes later the vessel...