LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dredger Steepholm
Mumbles, Glamorganshire - On 3rd October, 1968, the reserve life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, went to the aid of the dredger Steepholm. A full account of this service appears on page 546..
Summary of Accounts for 1978
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the National Film Theatre, London, will be published in the autumn issue of THE...
Category: Accounts
Summary of Accounts for 1979
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, will be published in the autumn issue O/THE LIFEBOAT.
Category: Accounts
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAHORE, IRELAND.—A branch of the Na- tional Life-boat Institution has been founded at Cahore, on the coast of Wexford, Ireland.
The Blackwater Bank, extending for many miles along this part of the coast, has been from time...
Category: Articles
Mabel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, the owner of the yacht Mabel, of Dun Laoghaire, told the coxswain that he had tried to take the yacht out of the harbour, but that she had broken down and...
A Rubber Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1959, thecoastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off St.
Mary's Bay and that a child was...
La Bonne Sante
Margate, Kent.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Hook sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.10. The sea was rough, and there was a...
William Hill
On the following day the same Lifeboat went, in a heavy sea, to the assistance of the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, which had shown signals of distress while lying in the bay about two miles from the shore. It was found that the...
James Kenway
HOLYHEAD. — It having been reported that a ship was ashore in Church' Bay, the Thomas Fidden Life-boat was launched at 1 P.M. on the 9th of January, and taken in tow by a steam-tug. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the barque...
Linnet
While the fishing dandy Linnet, of Lowestoft, was riding in the bay on the 28th September, a strong gale from the N.N.W. sprung up accompanied by a heavy sea, causing the vessel to drift slowly towards the shore. At midnight a flare-light...