LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...

In response to three guns fired from the Gorton lightship the Lowestoft Life-boat was also launched at about 9 A.M. on the 17th December and was towed out by the tug Rainbow. The wind was blowing half a gale from the N.E. accompanied by a...

Six fishermen saved by crew member in open fishing boatEamonn O'Leary, a member of Dun Laoghaire's All-weather lifeboat crew, has been awarded the Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum for a rescue which he carried out...

AT about midnight on 19th April an urgent message was signalled from the island of Papa Stour, in the Shetlands, asking for a doctor and a nurse to be sent at once to the help of a boy, four years old, who had fractured his...

KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...

Kenneth Atha Former Halifax branch chairman and treasurer.

The steam trawler Omer Denise, of Ostend, while in ballast from Ostend to the fishing grounds, ran on the rocks at Meres, near Coverack, on the 4th March. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate sea, and it was misty. The...

Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...