LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Padraic Dillane With deep regret we report that Coxswain Padraic Dillane of the Aran Islands lifeboat died recently following a short illness.

A greatly respected and much loved member of the local community, Padraic first...

Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...

Will you choose an adventure story to enjoy by the pool, or a handy guide to prepare for a sailing trip?

World Cruising Destinations:
An Inspirational Guide to All Sailing Destinations by Jimmy and Doina...

JULY 13TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but all its crew were lost and six bodies were picked up by fishing boats. - Rewards, £6 18s. (See St. Abbs, “Services by Shoreboats,” page 61.)...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.19 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been seen burning flares west of Point Le Moye. At 7.37 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out. There was...

courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF

Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast.

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...

ARKLOW.—The Coxswain of the Out Pensioner Life-boat, of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at Arklow, makes the following report of the circumstances attending the wreck of the barque Broughton, of Swansea, on the Irish coast, and...