LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 20TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL.

Information was received through the military and the police at noon that a partly submerged boat or raft was drifting towards the rocks at Rosskearagh Point, Sligo. A west-north-west...

Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., the life-boat designer, who last year retired from full-time service with the Institution, received a letter in November, 1966, from Coxswain W. Sheader, of the Scarborough lifeboat J. G. Graves of...

DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....

On the evening of llth May, a signal of distress having been hoisted at the Rock Light, the Rescue tubular life-boat immediately pro- ceeded down the Rock Channel, in tow of the steam-tug Universe, till within a mile and a quarter of the...

RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—It having been reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about a mile and a quarter 8.

of the Life-boat Station on the 28th March during half a gale of wind fromthe S.S.W., a heavy sea,...

OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...

The ketch Alexandra, of Chester, left that port on 31st January bound for Millom with a cargo of coal and next day stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. For three days every effort was made to get the vessel off, and about thirty tons of cargo...

The S.S. Karuma, of Hamburg, ran on to the rocks about half a mile north of New- biggin Point, during a very thick fog, on 13th October, whilst bound from Hamburg to the Tyne. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was immediately launched and proceeded to...