LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
May
At 12.30 P.M. on the 2nd January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard that a fishing coble was in distress north of Emmanuel Head.
The No. 1 Motor Life-boat Milbufn was launched and found the May of Holy...
Hibernia
The motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosweller was launched at 8.5 P.M. on the 19th January, during a moderate S.S.E. gale with a rough sea, to the help of the motor vessel Hibernia, of Skibbereen. She had grounded on the rocks...
Mrs. Adam Maitland, of Aberdeen
Mrs. Adam Maitland, who died on 5th October, was the founder of the Aberdeen Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and was chiefly responsible, with Mrs.
D. M. Kilgour, now its president, for making it one of the most successful in...
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent.—At 1.10 in the after- noon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, had capsized between one and two miles east of the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
Kingfisher
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 10.30 on the night of the 15th of April, 1948.
the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Kingfisher, of London, needed a doctor to attend to her chief officer.
As no other...
Peganda
Dover, Kent.—At 7.40 in the evening of the 1st of August, 1949, a yacht was seen by the life-boat mechanic to have broken down outside the harbour, and at 8 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A moderate...
Ina, of Blyth
Blyth, Northumberland. — At about 11.50 A.M. on the 8th December, 1937, it was reported to the coxswain that the motor fishing boat Ina, of Blyth, with a. crew of two, was out fishing.
The weather had got worse since she...
An Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the night of the 31st March, 1938, the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea off Brighton, and was firing Very lights. A light west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
Oceana
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—When off Worthing on the afternoon of the 24th July, 1938, the motor vessel Oceana, of Shoreham, had trouble with her engine. Two ladies on board were taken ashore by a small boat from Worthing and information given...
Florence Baxter
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 9th of September, 1953, the harbour authorities telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Florence Baxter was burning a flare off Rossall Point. At 9.25 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell...