LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On the 6th December intelligence was received at Wexford that a large vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank.
The weather was very thick at the time, with a strong wind and heavy sea. The Wexford large life-boat at...
Gifts from Crews
ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat Exhibitions In 1938
THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.
Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Tractors for the Antarctic
IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.
There are now eleven on the coast.
The type...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1875
Jan. 1.—JOHN ROWNAN, of Knalton, Co. Wa- terford, on the occasion' of the wreck of the barque Gwmissa, at Knalton Cove, afforded shel- ter to 3 of the crew who had got ashore, and af- terwards assisted to save 6 others of- the crew, all...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Perils In Mount's Bay
THE magnificence and terror of a gale on the rock-bound coasts of Cornwall can scarcely be exaggerated. The long impe- tuous swell of the great Atlantic, flinging itself on the rugged granite cliffs which guard the shores, is by its own...
Category: Articles
Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby
A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for...
Category: Obituaries
William Humphries
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—10th January.
On the night of the 9/10th January a man in Tenby picked up a wireless call for help from the steam trawler William Humphries, of Milford.
This message, which...
The S.S. Baron Graham and The S.S. Duero
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — On the night of the 10th February members of the Civic Guard from Waterford brought news that the s.s.
Baron Graham, of Ardrossan, was in distress about eight miles off the Waterford coast. A...
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Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...