LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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.

At 11.1 a.m. on 3rd August, 1966, a yacht was reported to be making little headway in very heavy seas in Rye bay.

The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 11.17, three hours after low water, in astrong south westerly gale...

OCTOBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

At 9.15 in the morning, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing coble Jean and Barbara was at sea and anxiety was felt for her. A south-south-east gale was blowing, increasing...

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.—18th February, 1939. A rocket had been reported off the Isle of Skye, but later it was thought to have been a meteor, as no vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £8 17s. 9d..

THE Institution has received a gift of £10 5s. from the children of a Liverpool preparatory school. It came from the sale of tickets for the last two school plays, The Merchant of Venice and The Pied Piper of Hamelin..

Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—3 r d August, 1938. After lights had been seen and calls for help heard from a yacht a search was made, but nothing was found, and it is assumed that the yacht had got away on the rising tide.— Rewards, £4 8s....

Mrs M. Donald, a member of The Mumbles ladies' guild, presents a cheque for £5,000 to Mrs P. Morgan, president of the guild. This most generous cheque had been given to Mrs Donald with instructions that it should be given to her... - View image in PDF