LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1960, a request was received from the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the life-boat to bring ashore an injured keeper from Tuskar Rock light- house and take...

Fowey, Cornwall.—While the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was out to the help of the woman who had fallen from Gribben Head on the 7th of August, a wireless message was received at her station from the Polruan coastguard at 5.50 that some boys had...

Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope.

THE Institution has lost, in one week, two very distinguished Scottish coxswains. Ex-Coxswain Walter Fair- bairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw,...

My husband was involved in the rescue of a surfer reported on page 18 of your Autumn 2012 issue. He was pretty shaken up by the experience and we'd like to emphasise the survivor's learning, that surfers should never go out alone. We...

Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.

Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...

HUNGRY BUT FIT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.10 a.m. on 2Oth February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cutter had been moored off Tregonhawke cliff for three days and that they were going to investigate. Half an hour later...

Southend'on-Sea, Essex. — On 15th February, 1938, the signal station at the pierhead reported that a barge was in distress off Grain Spit and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 12.5 P.M. A whole...