LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hoylake, Cheshire, and Rhyl, Flintshire - At 9.25 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the shipping agent to the m.v. Bierum informed the Rhyl honorary secretary that the vessel had gone aground a quarter of a mile east of Point of Air...

To TIMOTHY KEOHANE, on his retirement, after serving 23£ years as Coxswain of the Courtmacsherry Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To CHARLES WM. CONWAY, on his retirement, after serving 5J years as...

Kirkcudbright.—At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 20th of February, 1954, the Ross Island lighthouse keeper reported that a motor boat was drifting on the ebb tide. The coxswain had also seen her, and at 6.15 the life-boat J....

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 121 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 53 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1934 63,663 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G.

Presidential...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

•—At 1.40 P.M. on the 18th August the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired guns and hoisted signals to indicate a vessel in distress somewhere E. by N. of the lightvessel.

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.30 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1957, the harbour authorities reported that a fishing vessel was anchored in a dangerous position about one mile outside the harbour. The life-boat Howard Marri/at...

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...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 20th of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat from Ramsey Island bound for St. Justinian had broken down and was drifting past St. David'...