LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.

A report was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore two miles south of McArthur Head, Islay, and at 8.30 at night the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched. The...

A heavy sea suddenly made on the morning of the 24th April when three of the cobles were at sea. There was a strong N.E.

breeze with snow showers at the time.

The cobles were observed from shore, and...

There was an early wake-up call for Tenby lifeboat crew in September when a lone sailor found himself aground amid pounding waves

The lone yachtsman aboard his 7m boat Maridadi had dropped...

Some w a y s of f i l l i n g t he CO f f e r s . . . A clean sweep! The Royal Burgh of Cullen ladies lifeboat guild, established in May 1990, recently held a tombola evening which raised £700. The village of Cullen in north east...

Dear Editor

I read the Winter 2008–9 account of the opening of Dart station with interest but some confusion.

The appeal was for £259,000 but a D class lifeboat costs £...

A CINEMA which had helped the In- stitution by showing one of its films asked in return if the Institution could lend it a flag with skull and crossbones.

Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May,1956, the Dingle Civic Guard tele- phoned the Fenit life-boat station to sav that two men were stranded on a high ledge of a cliff under the old tower at Ballydavid...

Jan. 11.—Five men waded into the sea and saved the crew of three men from a fishing boat which had been capsized in a surf at Shering- ham, Norfolk—Reward, 11. 5s.

Jan. 11.—Four men put off in a boat and saved one of two...