LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MOTOR BOAT RESCUES CANOEISTS Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 19th August, 1962, the Dalkey civic guard informed the honorary secretary that a canoe, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Dalkey Island, and at 4...

Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...

Lifeboat naming ceremonies are always significant occasions, but few have attracted as much attention as the one that took place at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, Anglesey, in February.

The world’s media mingled with over...

AT twelve minutes to six on the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the life-boat station at The Mumbles, Glamorganshire, received a message from the coastguard that Burnham Radio had picked up a call from the British steamship Samtampa,...

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 12.50 early on the morning of the 14th of July, 1955, the Civic Guard at Bannow telephoned that two Bannow men had put out in a fishing boat at eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th, but had not been heard of...

HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...

Hartlepool, Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of 3rd of July, 1960, the second coxswain was informed that a speed- boat had capsized off the breakwater.

The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at...

AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...