LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Fine Services In the Summer Gales
DURING the south-westerly gales of ex- traordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three...
Category: Services
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services
The Goodwins
OFF the Kentish coast there lie, Sands of treacherous make, Which swallow many a ship, Who luckless get in their wake.
They say that Earl Godwin made, A terrible curse upon Any ship that passed that way, Would come to grief...
Category: Poetry
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TWO PEOPLE CUT OFF BY TIDE Dover, Kent. At 5.42 on the evening of the 15th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that two people were cut off by the tide between Dover and St. Margaret's Bay. The life-boat Southern...
Fishing Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED Filey, Yorkshire. At 8 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the life-boat second coxswain reported that six local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 8.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted was launched with the...
David Jolly
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft 20-45ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged, i amp. average...
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Classified Advertisements
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Tiller Master (David Jolly)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft 20-45ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged. 4 amp. average...
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Canoes
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - On 17th March, 1966, the life-boat Dunleary II was to undertake a special exercise in connection with the opening of the Irish Boat Show at which the Institution was represented. Before the life-boat left her...
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Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...