LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ard Carna (3)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
St.Peter Port Lifeboatmen With Radiant Med Survivors
St Peter Port lifeboatmen with Radiant Med crew members rescued on January 24. Before the survivors left Guernsey the lifeboatmen took them on an island tour but a lifeboat alert towards the end of the afternoon meant a dash to St Peter Port... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Matthew Walker and Portia
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the police reported that three yachts were in difficulties off West Kirby.
It was then learnt that one of the yachts had sunk and that her crew had been...
Welcome
Some stories hit you right in the heart
From page 16 of this issue, we tell one of those stories. Stranded in a February sea after their kayak flooded, it was up to 13-year-old Joe to help get his dad to safety. Thinking...
Category: Articles
April (1)
APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1910
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, The'Eight Honourable the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
S.S. Nicolaos (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
At 9 a.m. on 8th November, 1965, the Inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick keeper on the Tusker Rock lighthouse and requested that he be taken off....
Memorandum
The rule of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT IN- STITUTION for the distribution of Salvage payments to the Life-boat men when they have saved vessels with their crews on board, having been at some places misunderstood, the Committee refer the several...
Category: Articles
Tonnage Admeasurement (Continued)
IN the article on this subject in oar last number we stated that nine out of the twelve members of the Royal Commission on Tonnage were unanimous in their recommendations; that three of their number objected to sign the Report, viz., Messrs....
Category: Articles