LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur
Fishing boat sinking ROSSLARE HARBOUR OFFICE informed Storeman R. Walshe at 1130 on Thursday December 7, 1978, that a Swedish cargo vessel had relayed a distress signal from a fishing boat sinking off Tuskar Rock. Maroons were fired at 1135,...
Our Boys
Skegness, Lines. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen coming from a fishing boat off Ingoldmells Point. At 4.55 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a rough...
Degree
Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 4.10 p.m. on 26th April, 1969, while returning from exercise in a strong south westerly wind with a moderate sea, the life-boat saw a yacht sailing towards Garrison point in a dangerous position close...
Sealark
MA Y 22ND . - FERRYSIDE, CAR- MARTHENSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the Pembrey coastguard telephoned that a boat was in distress half a mile off shore, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Richard Ashley slipped her moorings at 8.27 and put...
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Lady Crab
About a fortnight later, on Saturday June 18, Caroline Finch was on passage to St Helier, in Jersey, on one leg of her extended crew training passage to station; she was under the command of Christopher Price, deputy divisional inspector of...
The S.S. English Trader
Torbay, Devon.—On the 23rd January the s.s. English Trader, of London, ran ashore at the entrance of DartmouthHarbour. The motor life-boat George Shee rescued the fifty-two men on board. Rewards : Bronze second service clasp, vellums, letter...
Hma: Robert Haworth MRCS Lrcp Da Eng of Barmouth
One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1893
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Royal Highness The PRINCE OF WALES, KG.
Seconded by The Eight Hon.
A. J. MUNDELLA, M.P., Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Swimming
is now some seventeen years since we felt it our duty to call the attention of the public to the lamentable disuse into which ; the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since that period great advances have been made in teaching this important...
Category: Articles