LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SICK MAN FROM LIGHTHOUSE LANDED Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 15th June, 1963, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a keeper on Skelligs Rock fighthouse was very ill and to...
Radieuse (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...
The Torpedoing of the "Leinster." By A. W. Lewis, The Consulting Engineer of the Institution
As it was in the course of my duties as Engineer to tie Institution that I was returning from Ireland on board the Leinster on Thursday morning, October 10th, a short account of my experience will not be out of place in THE LIFE- BOAT...
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Prince Consort
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direction of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
Minerva
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—Whilst running for the harbour, on the evening of the 7th December, the ketch Minerva, of Bridgwater, bound from Hayle for Bristol with sand, and the steamer Bride, of Hayle, with coal and coke, struck on the western spit of...
The S.S. Boadicea
In consequence of a telegram from Margate that the Tongue lightship was tiring for assistance, the Bradford Lifeboat and steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour at midnight on the 6th December, during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and a...
New Steel 70-Foot Life-Boat
A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...
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Night Passage By Wallace Lister Barber
SARAH TOWNSEND poRRiTT, stationed at Lytham-St Anne's, is a 46' 9" Watson lifeboat with a beam of 12' 9" and displacement of 24 tons 9 cwt. She was built in 1951 and as lifeboats go she is considered to be getting on in...
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Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 8th of April, 1949, the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me II left for the fishing grounds, was over- taken by bad weather and decided to return to Whitby. At half past six the life-boat coxswain...
Helen
Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the harbour authorities reported a yacht on the Lighthouse Bank, one and three-quarter miles north of the life- boat station, and at 7.25 the life-boat Ann Letitia...