LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pres. Roosevelt (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.30 on the morning of the 28th of April, 1958, the coxswain was working at the boathouse when he heard an explosion, which appeared to come from the Dutch coaster Pres. Roosevelt anchored one mile...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation in 1958. One was the station at Ballycotton in County Cork ; the other was Hastings in Sussex.
The ceremony at Hastings took place on the 27th of July,...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for Weymouth
AT the beginning of June the twin-screw motor yacht Mite (a converted naval motor launch 110 feet long) was coming up Channel on her way from Malta to London. On the 6th of June, when she was fifteen miles west of Portland Bill, both her...
Category: Services
A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.15 in the evening of the 1st of October, 1948, cries for help could be heard off the pier, and at 8.27 the motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light south- westerly breeze...
None (2)
Aith, Shetlands.—At eleven on the night of the 19th of November, 1948, a doctor telephoned that one of his patients on the Island of Papa Stour had met with an accident and asked if the life-boat would take him there.
A...
Schollevaer
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.55 on the night pf the 16th of April, 1949, the Tara coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen about two miles south of the South Rock Lightvessel, and the life-boat Herbert John was launched at 12...
Betty, of Cork
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1949, the chairman of the Youghal life- boat station telephoned that he was anxious for the safety of his son and another man who had left Youghal for Cork in...
Rinda, of Oslo
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a man had fallen over- board from the tanker Rinda, of Oslo, off Rock Ferry, and at 9.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett...
Thelma
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.18 on the evening of the 19th of July, 1953, the coxswain was rung up with the news that the motor launch Thelma, of Fishguard, was in distress off the northern breakwater. At 9.36 the life-boat White Star was...
Whitby Lass and Foxglove
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.16 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954,the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat appeared to be in difficulties one mile north-west of the harbour.
At 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary...