LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Drilling Rig
ROUGH SEA FACED IRB SAVE A drilling rig with men aboard off Hunterston was reported in trouble on 10th March. As assistance was required, the honorary secretary instructed the IRB at Largs, Ayrshire, to launch.
She launched...
Cornhill
On the night of the 15th January, three vessels which were at anchor in Dungarvan Pool were driven on the rocky shore at Ballin- acourty, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S. at the time. Two of them got so close to the shore that they...
Fishing Cobles
As the return of the local cobles from the fishing- grounds on the 22nd January was at- tended with considerable risk, due to the strong E.S.E. gale which had sud- denly arisen, the Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. to assist them. The...
Shenkin
YACHT REFLOATED ON RISING TIDE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.35 on the evening of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on the Shingles bank at the entrance to the Solent. The...
Dorothea Weber
GERMAN COASTER AIDED At 1.34 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German coaster Dorothea Weber appeared to be in difficulties off the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a storm force wind...
R.N.L.I. Medals for Irb Service
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
Category: Services
Prosperity
At noon on the 5th February a telephone mes- sage from the Maplin Light-house re- ported that a schooner was on the Barrow Sands flying signals of distress, and asked for the Life-boat to be sent at once. The crew were at once assembled and...
Jolani
A Fine Northumbrian Rescue.
THE fierce gales which are experienced j on the Northumbrian coast from time to i time cause a large number of casualties, ! and the brave Life-boatmen at Holy i Island have a fine list of...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MILLION, CORNWALL.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Mullion Cove, several wrecks, with loss of life, haying recently occurred in the locality.
The boat is 33 feet long, and rows 10 oars double-banked...
Category: Articles
Margaret, of Lancaster
On the 31st January the brigantine Margaret, of Lancaster, was driven on Dungarvan Bar during a heavy south- easterly gale. The Life-boat went off to her, but could only get within two hun- dred yards of her, for the sea on the bar was so...