LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Yawl Lily
FEBRUARY 9TH . - ABERDEEN. On returning to port at 6.12 P.M. the motor yawl Olive reported that she had spent an hour searching for the motor yawl Lily, of Aberdeen, which had been last seen disabled off the mouth of the River Don. A light S...
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 4.25 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the police that cries for help had been heard coming from the sea half a mile east of the station.
At 4.30 the IRB launched on a...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.55 in the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1949, some holiday visitors reported that a boat with a man and a small girl on board was on the rocks at the foot of Creadon cliffs. At 4.10 the life-boat...
The Lifting Barge Eileen Dubv E.
Escort for barge with dangerous list Holyhead's relief Tyne class Voluntary Worker was called on to stand by when the cargo aboard the 40m lifting barge Eileen Dubv E shifted in a Force 6 WNW wind and moderate to rough seas some seven...
A Rowing Boat
W Moelfre, Anglesey. — On the 2nd August a party of six put out in a rowing boat from Benllech. They lost their oars. The owner of the boat, seeing this, went after them in another boat.
He reached them, and got aboard with...
The New Quay, Cardiganshire, Life-Boat Returning With the Body of a Man on 16th August, 1967
The NewQuay, Cardiganshire, life-boat returning with the body of a man on 16th August, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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Open House
Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...
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FISHING COBLE FINDS BODY OF BOY Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 4th May, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Rosehearty bombing range. The police...
The S.S. Baron
Walmer, Kent.—In the morning of the 2nd of January, 1949, a strong south-westerly gale was blowing, and at 9.30 the agents for the S.S. Baron, which was in the Downs, reported that she was in urgent need of food and asked the life-boat to...
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NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from...