LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane's Dinghy (1)
APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out...
St. Gerard
DECEMBER 9TH. -ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 10.40 on the night of the 8th of December it was learned from the Civic Guards that the fishing boat St. Gerard, of Dublin, with a crew of six, was overdue. She had been expected back...
Vrede
DECEMBER 22ND. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 4.45 in the morning the Bangor coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Luke’s Point, Ballyholme. A squally north-westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and rain. The...
A Walrus Aeroplane
JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six...
Lifeguards in Ireland and Jersey
Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.
This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Year's Work
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in saving life from Shipwreck in the year 1872, may thus be briefly summarised:— Lives saved.
By Life-boats 569 By Shore-boats and other means, for -whose services the...
Category: Annual Reports
An Aeroplane
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
SUDDEN SINKING
At sea, things can go very wrong very quickly, as Penarth lifeboat crew found out on 12 June
Kath Fisher couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning, she thought: ‘Is this an omen that something’s about to happen?’ At 1.15am, her...
Category: Articles
The Newark Lightship
On the 2 7th October the large life-boat on this Station went out in reply to signals of distress from the Newark Lightship. On arriving alongside, it was found that she had been in collision with a large steamer, and had been cut down...
Mary and Ann
SOOTHPOBT, liAHCASHIBE. While the wind was blowing half a gale from the W., on the morning of the 14th May, the schooner Mary and Ann, of Bundalk, bound from Annalong, Co. Down, to (Jarston, with a cargo of stone, was observed to be In the...