LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ereina
HELICOPTER RESCUE At 8.46 p.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a Swedish vessel had reported that a yacht was firing red flares one mile east of the Margate sands beacon. There was one hour before low water, and it...
The Sailing Boat Lorelei
TOW FOR SAILING BOAT IN NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, a message was received that a sailing boat had capsized off Rush and that no local boat was likely to be able to help. A near gale was...
A Meteor Aircraft
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.— At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station to say the R.A.F. station at Worthing had reported that two airmen were baling out of a...
The S.S. Knossos, of Greece.
At 11.19 a.m. on 27th August, 1967, the ship's agent at Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the s.s. Knossos of Greece. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station,...
Second-Coxswain John Roberts, Llandulas
SECOND-COXSWAIN JOHN ROBERTS, of Llandulas, who died in May, 1939, at the age of 77, was second-coxswain of the Llandulas life-boat for 27 years, from 1891 to 1918. On his retirement he was awarded a pension by the Insti- tution. His...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Urania, of Swansea
At 9 A.M. on the 18th January, at which time it was blowing hard from the southward, the s.s. Urania, of Swansea, bound from that port to Newry, went ashore north of this port on the North Bull Bank, and the same Life-boat promptly proceeded...
Fingall
— At 7 P.M. on the 28th March the ketch Fingall, of Montrose, which was anchored in the South Bay, showed a signal of distress and the motor Life-boat Alex- ander Tulloch responded to it. The I vessel had carried away one of her I cables and...
Sunbeam
On the 14th March, when a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was | running, the fishing-coble Sunbeam was j delayed some hours behind the others, in consequence of the night being very dark with snow falling heavily and the...
South African (1)
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
C. S. Parnell
Wicklow. — On the evening of the 17th of May, 1950, the local fishing boat C. S. Parnell, with a crew of four, left for the fishing ground five miles south of Wicklow. The weather grew bad, a fresh north-easterly wind causing a rough sea....