LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
May (1)
MAY MEETING RINGFORD, Co. ANTRIM. Two men went out in a very small boat, on the 27th October, 1941, to lift lobster pots. A moderately strong and squally off-shore wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Apparently the small boat got into...
Category: Services
Membership News
Happy Anniversary The RNLI membership scheme celebrated its 20th anniversary on 2 January 1989 with a membership of 135,401. By 5 March, just two months later, this had increased by more than 4,000 to some 139,726, which is very good news...
Category: Articles
Surprise
The schooner Surprise, of Arbroath, whilst bound from Invergordon to Hartlepool with a cargo of timber, stranded near the mouth of the River Ugie on the 31st January. The) Coastguard re- ported it to the coxswain of the Life- boat George...
Dos Amigos
WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing....
A Yacht
TWO PEOPLE FOUND ASLEEP IN YACHT Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored between the Welchman and Dee buoys and that there seemed to be no sign of...
Two Schooners and A Brig
Two days later (on the 18th October) two schooners and a brig were observed off the harbour, a " strong gale " from the S.E. blowing, with a "very heavy sea" running. These vessels were the schooner Anne, of Montrose,...
A R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
OC T . 2 3 RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and had last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M. Two...
Aztec
A run saves fishing vessel in storm force windsAservice last September by Thurso's Arun class lifeboat in very heavy weather and with only one engine fully operational has earned her coxswain, Second Coxswain William Munroe,...
A Canoe (2)
Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a canoe had cap- sized two miles south-west of Spurn Point. At 3.50 the life-boat City of Bradford III was...
None (7)
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.30 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the local medical officer if the life-boat would take the county surgeon and his assistants from Cahirciveen to Valentia Island as...