LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Myrtle
Howth, Co. Dublin,—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1949, the life-boat R'.P.L. was launched for exercise in a rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing, and shortly after noticed a fishing boat one mile east of...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 7.0 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1952, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to the Island of Rhum to attend a sick person. The weather was too bad for the usual boat to put out, and at 7.30...
Yacht Carraig
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.30 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the Coast Life-saving Service that the steam yacht Carraig was shipping heavy seas eight miles east of Clogher Head and needed help. At 10.57...
Girl Alice
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 1.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Girl Alice had lost her rudder and was drifting near the Barrels lightvessel. At 2.13, when the...
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.
Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
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Capella
DUNGENESS (LTDD).—The Life-boat B.A.O.S. was launched at 1.40 A.M., on the llth April, while a moderate gale was blowing from W., accompanied by a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the barque Oapella, of Bremen, which, while...
Neath Trader
BURNHAM.—On the 14th October the coxswain of the Life-boat saw the smack Neath Trader, of Newport, Mon., ashore off Burnham during a heavy gale from the W.N.W. at about 10 o'clock A.M. The vessel was fall of water, and there were three...
Pierre Loti One of France's Latest 'All Seasons' Lifeboats
Pierre Loti, one of France's latest 'all seasons' lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jondee
Engine broken down ON TUESDAY, MAY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station at 1337 that a motor yacht, Jondee of Saundersfoot, was in trouble 300-400 yards off Lydstep Head, some five miles west of the...
Weather Forecasts
THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...
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