LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
Westmorland
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At10.10 a.m. on 28th November, 1969, a report was received that a member of the crew of the m.f.v. Westmorland needed urgent medical attention. At 10.30 the life-boat R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings in a...
An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (1)
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Miss TAYLOR, of Hauxley, has been presented with the Coxswain's Certificate of Service which would have been awarded to her late father, GEORGE TAYLOR, Coxswain at Hauxley for twenty years, on his retirement, had he not, unfortunately,...
Category: Awards
At the Sharp End
PUMP FLOATED ACROSS TO LEAKING CASUALTY IN STORM FORCE WINDS Five saved in 12-hour service to sinking trawler Number North Division Number's Arun class Kenneth Thelwall was away from her station for 12 hours in winds up to Force 10 when...
Category: Services
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.55 P.M. on the llth February, 1939, a telephone message was received that the Goningbeg Light-vessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the life-boat to take ashore a man who was dangerously...
and on Her Way to the 'Casualty'
. . . and on her way to the 'casualty' . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mary Ann & The Margaret Garston
At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 26th February, during a whole S.S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel in the bay. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was at once ordered out, and...
Ulster Rugby Stars Andy Ward and Tyrone Howe
Ulster rugby stars Andy Ward and Tyrone Howe (pictured above) helped tee-off the launch of ntl's Pro-Am golf tournament on 18 May at Dunmurry Golf Club in North Down.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sarah Ann
On the 17th February, shortly before 11 P.M., whilst the schooner Sarah Ann, of Fowey, was bound from London to Bridport, with a cargo of cement, she stranded on the Newcombe Bar Her signals for assis- tance were seen by the Coastguard who...