LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 3.29 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S. Germania, or Piraeus, wire- lessed that she had been in collision with the S.S. Maro, of Panama, four miles south of Beachy Head, but that no help was needed....

NOV. 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 10 A.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel had been damaged by enemy action E.N.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat The Lord...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.58 on the morning of the 17th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that the S.S.

Durward, of Grangemouth, which had a crew of eleven, was leaking and had a list on the south side of Robin...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 1.25 in the morning of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported that she had picked up the crew of four- teen of the S.S. Rojo, of Oslo, which had...

At } 10.15 P.M. on the 29th March a messenger reported that a vessel was j ashore on the North Cheek of Robin i Hood's Bay. The Life-boat Mary Ann LocJcwood was launched and proceeded to the stranded vessel, which...

At 8.20 A.M. on 30th January a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the East Goodwin Light Vessel had reported a steamer ashore to the N.W. of the Light Vessel. The Motor Life-boat Prudential put out and found the vessel to...

Troon, Ayrshire.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Obsidian, of Glasgow, had wirelessed distress signals, giving her position as four miles west-by-north of Ayr. At 12.5...

TORBAY, PLYMOUTH, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON.—The s.s. Trevaylor, of St. Ives, lost her propeller when off the Eddy- stone on 6th January, in a whole S.S.W.

gale, with a very heavy sea. She sent out an urgent call for help. It was...