LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (9)
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she was found ashore above high water mark with her crew safe. - Partly paid permanent crew.
Rewards, £3 1s. 6d..
A Convoy
OCTOBER 14TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Rockets had been reported some miles S.S.E. of Greenore Point, but when it was learned that a convoy had been attacked well over on the Welsh side of St. George’s Channel the life-boat was...
A Ship’s Boat
JUNE 13TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A drifting ship’s boat had been reported eighty-four miles west of Greenhead, Isle of Barra, but nothing was found.
Rewards, £18 14s..
The American Steamer Lawrence D. Tyson
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. A vessel had been reported in distress nineteen miles away, but the life-boat was recalled as the vessel, the American steamer Lawrence D. Tyson, had been taken in tow. - Rewards, £8 1s....
A Flying Boat
MARCH 24TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A flying boat had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found by the life-boat, and her crew were picked up by a warship the following day. - Rewards, £23 1s....
Mr. S.J.R. Legerton, of Clacton-On-Sea
BY the death of Mr. Robert Legerton on 28th September, at the age of eighty, the Institution has lost one who has been closely associated with its Clacton- on-Sea Station since its establishment fifty-two years ago, and who, as a Coxswain,...
Category: Obituaries
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent at Weston-super-Mare
Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat.
H.R.H. THE DUKE of KENT, KG., on 27th June named the motor life-boat at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. This is the ninth motor life-boat which he has named. The other eight have...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
Lyn II
Clovelly, Devon. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 26th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing boat Lyn II was reported missing.
Later it was learned that she had...
Mary
NEAR DUMPTON GAP Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.45 p.m. on i8th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles off Broadstairs was apparently having some difficulty in the fresh to near gale force...