LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Schiedam, of Middlesborough
On the 4th of the following month (December), the brig Schiedam, of Middles- borough, bound from Seaham to South- ampton with coals, foundered at sea off the Yorkshire coast soon after midnight.
The master and crew of 5...
A Steamer
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE. The No.
'2 Life-boat, Marianne Atherstone, performed an excellent service on the 26th March, resulting in the saving of four lives. About 5 o'clock a steamer was seen approaching the harbour,...
A Fishing Boat
One of the local fishermen, accompanied by his two sons, went off in his open fishing boat about noon on the 2nd June, in a strong breeze from S.W. to haul his lines, which were about H miles east of Blackhead, co. Antrim. He reached the...
Fox
SOUTHSEA.—On the 3rd March while a strong gale was blowing, the weather being very cold and thick, with squalls of rain and hail, intelligence was receivedthat a vessel was in distress and that the Warner Light Vessel was sending up rockets....
Mrs. Ferris Tozer, Hon. Secretary of the Exeter Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
Category: Obituaries
City of Bangor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.
on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...
Amelie
HUNSTANTON.—The Life-boat Licensed Victualler put off at noon on the 17th May in a rough sea and a strong N.N.W.
breeze, a vessel having been reported in distress. The vessel proved to be the brig Amelie, of Frederickstadt,...
A Small Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At about 2.35 P.M.
on the 8th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small boat with two men on board had been blown to sea from Bracklesham Bay. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
Kestrel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 2nd October, 1938, a small boat near the edge of the Burbo Bank in the Rock Channel was seen to be flying a distress signal. A fresh, squally west breeze was blowing, with a...
Dimcyl
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About three in, the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an auxiliary sailing yacht, one and a half miles to the eastward, was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott,...