LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal for Irish Coxswain
FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...
Category: Medals
Roseneath
ST. ANDREWS, N.B.—The Ladies' Own Life-boat put off on the morning of the 16th November to the assistance of the schooner Roseneath, of Hull, which was near the breakers on the sandbanks off St. Andrews during a strong E. gale and very...
Brian Williams a Shoreline Member Specialises In Making Scale Miniature Models of Individual Boats His Replicas Include Sailing Barges and Yachts and A/So Lifeboat
Brian Williams, a Shoreline member, specialises in making scale miniature models of individual boats. His replicas include sailing barges and yachts and a/so lifeboats, a number of which have been ordered for presentation to serving or... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Southend 60 Years Ago
Southend 60 years ago As it is October 1998 (date of letter), I thought readers may be interested in some pictures I took in October 1938! The photographs are of Southend lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No.3), in action.
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Category: Photographs
Navarre
Wick, Caithness-shire. — At about 11.20 P.M. on the 2nd September, 1939, information was received from the coastguard that the trawler Navarre, of Grimsby, was ashore about five miles south of Duncansby Head. A fresh southerly wind was...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1953, a message was received from the Skelligs Rock lighthouse asking if the life-boat would land a sick keeper.
The tender of the Commissioners of Irish...
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JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
South African
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...