LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brilliant
BTTE, SUSSEX. The Mary Stanford Lifebout was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st May, in reply to signals of distress shown by a vessel which proved to be the schooner Brilliant, of Fowey, bound from Antwerp to Plymouth, with a cargo of...
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Galway Bay. On the 13th December, 1961, the Assistant Commissionei of Irish Lights asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat would take a sick keeper off the Slyne Head lighthouse when the weather permitted. At the time of his request...
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SEPTEMBER MEETING RATHCOURSEY, CO. CORK. While sailing a racing dinghy on the morning of the 23rd July, 1940, a boy and girl were capsized in East Ferry Inlet, Queenstown Harbour. A squally S.W. wind was blowing against the strongly ebbing...
Category: Services
The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin Dedicates Her to God
The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin Dedicates Her To God. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Sheringham Life-Boat Returns After Her First Service
(See page 150). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When a New Carriage-Launch Lifeboat Arrives at Her Station
When a new carriage-launch lifeboat arrives at her station she is immediately re-launched and then recovered again as a final check on the carriage, tractor and lifeboat and to familiarise the shorehelpers with the new equipment. Recovery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Her Majesty the Queen's Recognition of Gallant Conduct
THE destruction by fire of H. M.'s troop-ship Birkenhead, in 1852, and of the hired transport Europa,* in 1854, will no doubt be remembered by many of our readers.
Both catastrophes were attended by lamentable loss of...
Category: Articles
Captain John Williams, Aberdovey
Captain John Williams, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., who died on 6th December, 1937, at the age of seventy-two, had been the Institution's honorary sec- retary and treasurer at Aberdovey since 1925, first of the station, and, when it was closed in...
Category: Obituaries
Ephratah
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, information was received that a trawler, which had gone ashore at Saddle Point, was blowing her syren and burning flares, and the motor life- boat White Star was...