LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
Category: Services
Ballycotton
BALLYCOTTON. CO. CORK On the 23rd December, 1942, the Ballycotton life-boat rescued the crew of thirty-five of the S.S. Irish Ash, of Dublin.
COXSWAIN PATRICK SLINEY was awarded the silver medal.
SECOND...
Category: Medals
On Passage With the R.N.L.I.
The passages of two new life-boats to their stations are described here by men who were aboard. The first account, reproduced by courtesy of the Eastern Daily Press in which it appeared on 28th October, 1964, is written by Dr. P. S. Barclay,...
Category: Articles
Best Wreck Service of the Year. Three Scottish Life-Saving Companies Share Prize
LIFE-SAVING Apparatus Companies in the Hebrides and the Shetland Isles share the award of the Minister of Transport's shield for the best wreck service of the year 1963-4. The shield will be held for six months by the Port Ellen and Mull...
Category: Awards
Heroic Conduct.—Award of the Gold Medal of the National Life-Boat Institution
ON the occasion of the late fearful wreck of the steamer Royal Charter, with the loss of no less than 450 of those on board her, there was one person amongst the few survivors of the catastrophe who has been deservedly held up to public...
Category: Medals
Maria Jane
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. — The lugger Maria Jane, of Peel, left the harbour at about 4 p.m., on the 26th March, for mackerel fishing off the coast of Ireland.
A strong breeze was then blowing from N.N.W. and the sea was rough....
Green Pastures
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 12.1 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned to say a message had been received from New- biggin that the Newbiggin life-boat was unable to launch and escort in a fishing coble. The...
A Raft
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that three boys were adrift on a raft off Arklow beach, and that a man had swum to them, but had returned to the shore for help. At 6.7 the life...
The Sailing Boat Avec Nom
Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from Kingsgate that two men in a sailing boat three quarters of a mile off Joss Bay were waving an oar. At three...
Jolly Roger
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat had capsized off Port Eynon Point. Her three occu- pants had been thrown into the sea.
The...