LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th Oct., 1870: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Meetings
Otto
POOLE, DORSETSHIRE.—On the 1st Junethe brigantine Otto, of Hoganas, Sweden, from Gene to Poole with a cargo of timber, was taken in tow by a steam-tug about 9 A.M., and while crossing Poole Bar the wind blowing from the E., accompanied by a...
Zelos
Signals of distress were seen on the north part of the Barber Sand at 7 A.M. on the 7th December during a fresh N.E.
wind and a heavy sea. The Cockle lightship was also firing guns and rockets.
The Covent...
Hoppet
ALDBOBOUGH.—Information having been received that a vessel was in distress at the N. end of Sizewell Bank, the George Hounsfidd Life-boat was launched at about 11.40. A.M. on the 14th March, during a strong S.E. gale and a very heavy sea,...
Emily, of North Shields
WEST HARTLEPOOL AND REDCAR.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 5th February night signals of distress were observed from the direction of the South Gare, at the entrance of the Kiver Tees. It was blowing a gale from E.N.E., with snow, and a heavy sea was...
Annie, of Padstow
ABERSOCH.—At 9 A.M. on the 30th Jan.
the schooner Annie, of Padstow, bound from Dublin to Bristol, was observed with signals of distress flying while riding at anchor in St. Tudwell's Roads. It wasblowing a hard gale...
Crocodile
RAMSGATE—On the 6th January the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Aid, left the harbour at 3.30 A.M., in a strong N.E. breeze with snow squalls and a heavy sea, signal guns having been fired from the Goodwin Sands. The tug and...
A Shrimp Boat Lord Clyde
At 10.40 A.M.
on the 2nd August, during a moderate E.N.E. gale with heavy sea, the Coast- guard reported that a disabled shrimp boat was driving ashore about a mile to the southward. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark...
The Sailing Boat Artistic
At about midnight on the 12th-13th September a telephone message was received from Gardenstown stating that the sailing boat Artistic of that place had struck on the rocks off the harbour, and the assistance of the Life-boat was required.<...
Dorothea
The steam trawler Dorothea, registered at Thors- haven, Faroe Islands, left Fleetwood for the fishing grounds early in the morning of the 16th January, but stranded on the west end of Walney Island, shortly after 3 A.M. The vessel was then...