LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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ALL NIGHT SERVICE TO DUTCH COASTER Holyhead, Anglesey. At half past nine on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht in the harbour was flashing SOS signals. The...
The White Star Cargo Vessel The Bardic
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
Wreck of the Training-Ship "Eurydice."
IT is the peaceful Sabbath-tide ; The sacred words have scarcely died That asked a guardian angel's hand For wand'rers over sea and land; Across the dancing waters bright A gallant vessel greets the sight, With every sunlit canvas...
Category: Poetry
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the j 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk. ' During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather, • the...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1885
Jan. 1.—Voted 5?. to the master and crew of the steam-tug Telephone, of Falmouth, for saving five fishing-luggers, some of their nets, and their crews, numbering twenty men, which were in much danger off Exmouth during a heavy gale from the...
Category: Articles
The Rev. Henry Vyvyan, of Cadgwith
By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he...
Category: Obituaries
Moonbeam, the S.S. City of Dublin and Marie Victoire
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that the Cowes police had re- ported a yacht aground on the East Brambles, which was being pounded severely. The life-boat...
Coxswain Neil Brockman of Penlee
Coxswains Terry George of Sennen Cove, left, and Neil Brockman of Penlee were both awarded a Bronze Medal as a result of their joint service to the fishing vessel Julian Paul.
They are pictured shortly before receiving... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Youghals Atlantic 21 In Full Cry
Youghals Atlantic 21 In Full Cry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Admiral Sir Rae McKaig KCB CBE,
January 1996 Admiral Sir Rae McKaig KCB CBE, member of the committee of management since 1984 and member of the search and rescue committee since 1987..
Category: Obituaries