LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dan O’Connell
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and anchored. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Margrit Angelika
Ramsgate, Kent - At 9.5 a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard at Deal to inquire whether any distress calls or advice from lightvessels had been received regarding a German ship aground on the Goodwins...
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (3)
MAN TAKEN OFF MOORING BUOY Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.5 on the night of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with a man on board was drifting across Holyhead harbour.
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Longhope, Orkney*. — On the afternoon of the 29th March a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman patient, who was suffering from appendicitis, to Scapa for an immediate operation. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...
Flying Fox
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board Bathing Master telephoned that a yacht had run ashore between No. 4 and No. 6 buoys in the River Liffey. At 9.40 the life-boat Helen Blake...
The Harwich Steam Life-Boat Proceeding to the Stranded Schooner Notre Dame De Toutes Aides on the 7th April, 1908
The Harwich Steam Life-Boat Proceeding To The Stranded Schooner Notre Dame De Toutes Aides on the 7th April 1908. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morning Star
DECEMBER 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
During the morning while the fishing boats were out an east-south-east wind sprang up, causing a heavy surf on the beach. As the boat Morning Star, with a crew of three, had not returned by...
The Restless Ocean and The Dutiful
A Disaster at Arbroath.
EAELY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.
About seven in the morning the...
"Life-Boat Saturday" Help! Help!
ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.
Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...
Category: Poetry