LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Unsung heroes: Vincent Rafter
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his involvement with the RNLI goes back even further
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
RABBIT-CATCHERS MAROONED Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Shortly after seven in the evening of the 22nd of December, 1947, information was received from Melness, Sutherlandshire, thirty-five miles to the eastwards, that two men were marooned on the...
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Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a racing yacht appeared to be in diffi- culties in Friar's Bay and was making heavy weather. He kept her under observation, and at...
Shantico (2)
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...
Old friends in the Fund
Volunteers in New Brighton, Wirral, became the proud owners of a new inshore lifeboat in November 2009. This Summer, the B class will be given a special name, marking her place in a long line of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
An American Superfortress Aeroplane
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
The S.S. Vancouver City
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—14th Sep- ** tember, 1939. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless SOS call from the s.s. Vancouver City, of Bideford.
She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons...
The Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts
THE first of three life-boats built out of a gift of £33,000, which the Institution has received from its Southern Africa branch,* was named at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on the 23rd of July, 1948, in the presence of a large audience on the...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of December.
1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Inishtearaght Rock lighthouse, as the weather was too bad...
Dagenite Batteries
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
'Dagenite batteries are used extensively by "the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ?...
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