LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Zembra
The s.s. Zembra, of Dunkirk, bound from Hartlepool to Savona, laden with coal, and carrying a crew of twenty-nine, ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, on the night of the 19th November, during a fog. Informa- tion was received from the...
The S.S. Miltrap
Holy Island, Northumberland. •—• At 8.8 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, it was reported by the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress near the Plough Seat Rocks. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...
The S.S. Ganges, of Hull
On the 23rd Octo- ber, the S.S. Ganges, of Hull, was stranded on the Hasborough Sands during a strong wind and in hazy weather. The Birming- ham, No. 1 life-boat went off and remained by the vessel four nights, until she floated off the sand...
The S.S. Vostizza
The No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden was launched at 5.30 A.M. on the 30th November to the assistance of a, vessel, which had stranded about four miles to the north of Whitby.
The vessel turned out to be the s.s. Vos- tizza...
The S.S. Monkton Combe
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1953, the Spurn Point Coastguard reported that the S.S. Monkton Combe, of Bristol, had been in collision with another vessel, and that the Monkton Combe was trying to beach...
The S.S. Gudrun
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the S.S. Gudrun of Norway stating that her deck cargo of timber...
The S.S. Alhena (1)
JANUARY 29TH-31ST and FEBRUARY 1ST.
- CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.50 A.M. information came to the Cloughey station from the coastguard at Tara that the S.S. Alhena, of Rotterdam, of 5,000 tons, laden with...
The S.S. Ullapool
MARCH 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.55 in the evening the Seacombe Ferry Office sent a message that vessel had struck a mine off Seacombe Stage, and at 9.15 the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston was...
The S.S. Meriones
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
In the early morning of the 22nd January,the S.S. Meriones, of Liverpool, stranded on the Haisborough Sands three-quarters of a mile east by north of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy. She...
The S.S. Muristan (1)
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...