LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosemary II and Betty Sheader
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 3Gth of December, 1955, information was received from the crews of fishing boats coming in from sea that the wind was freshening and the weather worsening. There were doubts about the safety...
None (1)
Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other...
A Lobster BBoat
Howth, Dublin.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956, the Civic Guard at Skerries reported that a lobster boat from Rush was in difficultues about three miles off shore between Rush and Lambay. At 3.30 the...
Watchful
PROPELLER FOULED BY FISHING NET Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At mid- night on the 17th of October, 1947, it was learned that the motor fishing boat Watchful had not returned, and at 9.40 next morning the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...
Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9.30 in the morning of the 29th of November, 1947, the Runswick life-boat station telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Venus, of Whitby, had broken down oft Staithes and needed help. She was reported to be...
Naom Seaghan
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At nine in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, information was received from the Civic Guards that a fishing boat, which had left Cahirciveen the previous afternoon, had not returned. Enquiries were made, but without...
A Motor Launch
Falmouto, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 18th of June, 1948, a woman reported that her hus- band and another man had put out fishing in a motor launch the previous morning and had not returned. At 1.30 the motor life-boat...
Lenrodian
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 12.25 in the afternoon of Sunday, the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been re- ceived from the pilot cutter Penlee that the motor vessel Lenrodian, of Sheer- ness, was...
Naming Ceremony at St. Ives
THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rowing Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—In the early afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had gone out in a rowing boat, to tow in a dinghy which had blown out to sea, was unable to make headway and...