Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Category: Services
THIRTEEN MEN TAKEN OFF BELGIAN TRAWLER Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.10 on the morning of the 22nd December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler was ashore on rocks between Auskerry and Stronsay. The...
water, the submarine.surveying apparatus will be used in addition to the ordinary mode of sweep- ing ; the stages (with the divers down the chain- ladders on their platforms) being drawn by a screw-steamer about half a-mile the hour, there...
Category: Articles
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—-At 1.20 P.M.
on the 30th July, 1939, a man reported to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Ballycotton, which was out with anglers, was flying a distress signal about...
The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
Colin Stewart, chairman of the Harlow and District branch. He was a member of the committee since 1971 and had been chairman since 1978..
Category: Obituaries
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 18th day of March 1879, his Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
Category: Articles
FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.
These figures are...
Category: Articles
In October, Ballyglass’s new D class lifeboat, the Clann Lir, was officially named. It was named by Sophie Reilly from Belmullet National School – who won a competition judged by station volunteers – after the Celtic legend of the children...
Category: Articles