LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Sarah
Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...
Bacchus
Rescue from the Rocks RED FLARES sighted in a position one and a half miles south east of St Helier, Jersey, were reported to the deputy launching authority of the St Helier Station by a member of the public at8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September...
The S.S. Artificer
On the morning of the 9th September the Coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore to the north of Filey. A fog prevailed at the time with a rough sea, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was promptly launched. About two miles to...
INLAND LIFE-BOAT CREW
Stockport's unique life-boat crew—the only inland crew recognised by the R.N.L.I.—recently received a silver and bronze statuette of a life-boatman in appreciation of the crew's 33 years' work in collecting for the...
Category: Awards
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
Plymouth Exhibition
The international lifeboat exhibition, which as reported in the July issue of THE LIFEBOAT is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, will run from July 20 to August 31,1974, and not from July 14 to September 10 as...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Shuna
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—Early on the morning of the 17th October the s.s. Shuna, of Glasgow, bound for Gothenburg, ran hard on the rocks one mile S.S.W. of Chuirn Island Light.
A west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Intrepid
MARGATE.—Signals were shown by a vessel in Margate Roads, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, with rain, on the 3rd August. The Lifeboat Civil Service, No. 1, was launched at 11.40 P.M...
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Category: Advertisement
Croix du Sud
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and...