LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Angling launch THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Beaumaris lifeboat station was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 1220 on Sunday December 13, 1981, that the 35ft angling launch Wygyr was in difficulties and needed urgent assistance off Puffin Island...

Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...

At midnight on the 8th of March the look-out man reported a vessel on shore.

A strong S.E. wind was blowing at the time and the sea was heavy. The Good Hope .was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The brigantine Victoire, of Irvine, bound thence to Dublin with a cargo of coal, showed signals of distress when about two miles east of Eamsey Harbour on the 26th October.

The wind was blowing from the...

The cobles were off fishing on the 2nd April in a E.N.E. breeze when the sea commenced to grow and rendered their return very dangerous. In the absence of the coxswain with the fishermen, the signal- man of the Life-boat James Oowland very...

KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 2nd January 1900 the Life-boat John Robert was launched at 1.45 A.M., rockets and guns having been fired from the Barrels Rock Light-vessel. A light S.E. wind was blowing at the time, the sea was moderate and the...

Aberdeen.—The local steam trawler Lynburn, which had previously broken adrift, had gone ashore in the Naviga- tion Channel at Aberdeen. In the early hours of the morning of the 26th of September, 1950, tugs were trying to refloat her; and at...

Port Erin, Isle of Man.—During the afternoon of the 25th April, 1989, a strong N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Three fishing boats were out and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat Ethel Day Cardwell was launched to their help. Two of the...