LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cairnglen
OCTOBER 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 6.57 A . M . a message was received from the port war signal station that a vessel was ashore off the Tyne, north of Souter Point. A strong easterly wind was blowing, and there was a moderate...
The S.S. Eddie, of Fraserburgh
DECEMBER 10TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 11.45 on the night of the 9th of December, the coastguard reported a vessel firing distress signals three miles north-east of Flamborough Head. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy...
The S.S. Dryburgh
Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M..
a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west...
The S.S. Baron Carnegie
JUNE 11TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEM- BROKESHIRE. At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval base had reported a boat, from a vessel in distress, twelve miles north of St. David’s Head, and the motor life-boat Civil Service...
The S.S. Gannet
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...
The S.S. Alhena
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. Edith Owen
CEMLYN AND CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—On the 27th January, the s.s. Edith Owen, of London, bound from Bristol to Liverpool with a general cargo, struck on the Coal Kock, off the coast of Anglesey, during foggy weather, the wind blowing moderately...
The S.S. Gangeren
The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched during a moderate N.E. gale and heavy break- ing sea, on the llth January, to the assistance of the s.s. Gangeren, of Brevik, which stranded near the North Pier.
Owing to the heavy...
The S.S. Ben Varrey
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 1.80 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station from the pier-master that a vessel was showing red lights off Douglas Head.
A strong westerly gale was blowing...
The S.S. Kabinda (1)
DEC. 8TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.32 A.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that a Belgian steamer had stranded on the Goodwin Sands, north of the wreck of the Mahratta.
A whole S.S.W....