On this day (10th January) WW1 Shipwreckollections
SS Brookwood (1904 – 1917) SS Brookwood, a merchant British steamer, was built in 1904 by Ropner & Son, Stockton-on-Tees. At the time of her loss, she was owned by Constantine Joseph.
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SS Brookwood (1904 – 1917) SS Brookwood, a merchant British steamer, was built in 1904 by Ropner & Son, Stockton-on-Tees. At the time of her loss, she was owned by Constantine Joseph.
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The EMILE ROBIN Award was made to Captain G Hindmarch and Chief Officer R Couch of the coaster MW Londonbrook for the rescue of 3 crew of the stricken Waldrian off the NW cost of Scotland in big seas on the 10th October 1985. On 10th October, 1985 the coaster Londonbrook picked up a message […]
Read More The Society’s Gold Medal awarded to Captain Holdsworth and Silver Medals to 9 others of the barque Decapolis for rescuing 22 crew of the Elbana of Liverpool in tremendous seas in the South Western approaches to the English Channel on 10th October 1878. Captain Holdsworth brought to the notice of the Committee the following act […]
Read More The EDWARD AND MAISIE LEWIS award was presented to Lieutenant NA King and crew of Helicopter ‘Rescue 701’ of 819 Naval Air Squadron, Prestwick for the rescue of the crew of the fishing vessel Poseidon taking in water North of Skye on 9 November 1982. At 0923 on 9 November 1,982, a request for assistance […]
Read More The Society’s Silver Medal was award to skipper Henry Saffrey of the steamship Queenstown of Grimsby for saving the crew of the Norwegian barque, St Joseph, on 9th October 1905. Also medals to JD Farman and Thomas Tovey who manned the rescue boat. On October 9 the st Queenstown, of Grimsby, saved the crew of […]
Read More In the case of the FV Sweet Home, of Whitehills, for the rescue of the Master and five others composing the crew of the FV Comet, of Nairn, while clinging to the bottom of their capsized boat, in a heavy sea after violent squall, off Kinnaird Head, on July 24 1883. To the Master of […]
Read More The Committee have decided to recognise, by the award of the Society’s Silver Medal, the exceptional bravery displayed by Junior Ordinary Seaman Victor Derek Brockman, of the tug Lady Brassey, although aged only sixteen years, when the Empire Lough, carrying a cargo of cased petrol, was set on fire on the 24th July 1944, by […]
Read More To Captain Glenn Wostenholme of the Maersk Kendal. Shortly after midnight on 7th August 2007 the MV Pailin Maritime, a 30 year old, 3,000 ton vessel, fully laden with a cargo of logs and a crew of 24 en route from the Solomon Islands to Vietnam sent out a distress call. Her hull had cracked; […]
Read More Society Silver Medal awarded to Frederick Adams of the smack ‘Primrose’ for the rescue of crew of the Danish steamer Copenhagen on 6 December 1885. In the case of the smack Primrose, for saving, in the smack’s boat, on December 6, during a westerly gale, with heavy sea, near Horn Reef, in the North Sea, 14 […]
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SS Allie (1899 – 1917) The merchant British steamer SS Allie was built in 1899 by Harkess W. & Sons Ltd., Middlesbrough.
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