Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of 3rd of December, 1958, the honorary secretary received a request from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to take an expectant mother from Inishere Island to the mainland.
Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...
Category: Correspondence
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
17th De- cember. Flares reported E.S.E. of Inchkeith, but nothing was found.— Rewards, £16 16s. 6d..
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 5.41 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1966, the Master Frank was seen flying a distress signal. She was due in harbour at 3 o'clock. At 6.14 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched into a moderate east...
PALLING. — While a whole gale was blowing from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 5th January, intelligence was received that a vessel had gone ashore about a quarter of a mile from Hasborough, and that the services of the...
Last August a dream came true for disabled pensioner Albert Moss when he parachuted from 13,000ft above the Yorkshire coast - boosting lifeboat coffers by £700 in the process.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
Category: Songs
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the night of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Spontaneity, on passage to Yarmouth, had reported that one of her crew was sick. She was ex- pected to arrive off Whitby in...
YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coastguard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and proceeded under sail to...