LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The "Hopelyn" Service
THE presentation of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals awarded to the Coxswains and Crews of the Lowestoft Motor Life- boat and the Gorleston Pulling and Sailing Life-boat for the service to the s.s. Hopelyn on 19th-21st October, 1922, took...
Category: Services
Fairy Marine Group
Waveney 13 4m Self-righting Lifeboat sr craft for the total coastguard concept Tracker 19 6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton, Telephone: Hamble 2661 Telex: 47546.
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
ALDBOROOUGH, SUFFOLK.—At 7.30 AM.
on the 6th December, 1883, a sudden gale from the N.I. sprang up accompanied by a very rough sea. The fleet of fishing boats was out, and two of the boats were unable to cross the shoals....
Category: Services
The Admiralty Trawler Warwick Deeping
OCTOBER 11TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. The Admiralty trawler Warwick Deeping had sunk as a result of enemy action, but her crew of twenty-fire were rescued by two men in a motor boat and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.- Rewards,...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1955 79,860 Notes of the Quarter THE first good summer which Britain and...
Category: Articles
Adrift In the Irish Sea. Search By Seven Life-Boats
ON the night of the 15th November, 1937, the three-masted auxiliary schooner Invermore, of Dublin, left New Ross, Co. Wexford, for Liverpool, with a cargo of pit props. She carried a crew of five. During the following night, when she was off...
Category: Services
Obituary
Lady Baring.
ALL associated with the Institution will join in sympathy with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the committee of management, in his sorrow at the death of Lady Baring, on 9th June, after a long illness....
Category: Obituaries
A Barge (1)
Youghal, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of November, 1960, the motor mechanic was told that a boat being used in the construction of the new bridge at Youghal was in difficulty and drifting seawards. The weather was cloudy,...
Hawthorn
During a strong W.S.W. breeze at about 7.30 P.M. on the 21st July a ketch was observed trying to make the harbour; she missed stays, drifted to eastward, and struck the bar just off the east pier. The crew of the Life-boat Michael Henry were...
Mary Immaculate
ENGINE BROKE DOWN Galway Bay. At 12.10 a.m. on 6th January, 1964, the Galway police informed the honorary secretary through the Kilronan coast life-saving station that a fishing boat with four people on board was missing in Galway Bay. There...