LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coonatto, of London,
On the 21st February at 8.30 A.M.
this Life-boat again proceeded to Beachy Head to the assistance of the barque Coonatto, of London, which vessel, while on a voyage from Adelaide to London, with wool and copper, got ashore...
Equestrian
BUCKIE, N.B.—On the morning of the 15th October, while the wind was blowing very hard from the N.N.E., a telegramwas received from the chief officer of Coastguard at Port Gordon, about two miles to the westward of this place, stating that a...
Hoity Toity
At 3.52 P.M. on 17th December a request was received from the Calshot Air Station that the Motor Life-boat B.A.S.P. should be sent to the aid of the speed boat Hoity Toity, which had been seen, by a flying boat, to be in distress_spme...
Mrs. Hodgetts, of Lewisham
Mrs. Hodgetts, of Lewisham, who died on 19th September, 1931, after a short illness, was one of the oldest of the Institution's honorary workers. She was Honorary Treasurer of the Lewi- sham, Lee and Eltham Ladies' Auxiliary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Thistle
During-a whole S.S.W. gale with a heavy sea on the 14th January, the Coxswain was at the Life-boat Station, when, at 12.30 P.M., he received information from the Coastguard that the small fishing boat Thistle, of Peterhead, with two men on...
A Fishing Boat
At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken by a sudden rising of the...
None
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—On the llth February a man and his wife, walking from the mainland to Hilbre Island, were overtaken by a very heavy snowstorm, and as they had not returned, and it was doubtful whether they would have reached the island...
H.M. Torpedo Destroyer Recruit
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—During a dense fog on the 27th of May H.M.
Torpedo Destroyer Recruit struck the rocks, about half a mile N. of Cape Cornwall, at 4 o'clock in the morning. The Coxswain, hearing distress signals,...
Fishing Boats (1)
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Oneida
On the 3rd August a S.S.W. gale was blowing, ac- companied by a heavy ground sea, and about 11.20 a telephone message was received stating that a fishing boat was outside, and unable to make the harbour. A look-out was kept, and when, some...