Date Name of Ship Merchant/Fishing Tonnage 1st January Baycraig Merchant 3,761 1st January Ivernia Merchant 14,278 1st January Holly Branch Merchant 3,568 2nd January Carlyle Merchant 466 4th January Wragby Merchant 3,641 4th January Lonclara Merchant 1,294 5th January Allie Merchant 1,127 5th January Lesbiau Merchant 2,555 6th January Hudworth Merchant 3,966 6th January Beaufront […]
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Silver Medal awarded to the Master of the Smack General Wolseley of Grimsby for the rescue of 2 survivors of the crew of the Dutch herring lugger Maatze in the North Sea in very heavy seas on 30th October 1884. Awards were also made to the Mate, Thomas H Smith and to 3 hands Williams […]
Read More Emile Robin award made to Captain WH Smith and Chief Officer GA Kirk of the ss Toronto of Hull for rescuing the crew of the British schooner General Knox of St John’s, Newfoundland, sinking in the North Atlantic on 17 October 1919 in dangerous seas. Silver Medals were also awarded to 17 of the crew.
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A museum which was gifted a watch, worn by a cook on the first British ship to be sunk by Germany in World War Two, is hoping to trace the seaman’s family. Sidney Worrall was badly injured in the attack on the Athenia in 1939, which killed 117 people, and passed his watch to a […]
Read More 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 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 […]
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SS Wragby (1901 – 1917) SS Wragby was built in 1901 by Ropner & Son, Stockton and owned by Sir R. Ropner & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool at the time of her loss.
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SS Carlyle (1901-1917) SS Carlyle was a British steamer weighting 466 tonnes. She was built by Selby Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Selby in 1901 and owned at the time of her loss by Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Liverpool.
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RMS Ivernia (1900 – 1917) The merchant SS Ivernia was built in 1900 and commissioned as an auxiliary transport vessel. She was torpedoed and sunk 58 miles of Cape Matapan on 1 January 1917 when on her way to Alexandria.
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