LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.

Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen south-east of the coastguard look-out.

At 9.20, when the life-boat Edian...

Drifting trawler THE RAMSGATE TRAWLER Nancy reported to Ramsgate Harbour Radio on the evening of Monday January 30, 1984, that warps and nets had fouled her propeller. Her position was one and ahalf miles east south east of North Foreland...

Eight-hour tow in winds up to Force 9 Rosslare Harbour Ireland Division Rosslare Harbour's Arun class St Brendan was at sea for twelve hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 12 August 1988 when a yacht found herself in trouble more than 50...

A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT MARYPORT OCTOBER 9TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. During the afternoon a strong southerly wind was blowing. Towards the end of the afternoon it veered to west-north-west, growing rapidly stronger, and just before dark it...

SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...

AMIDST wars and rumours of wars, whilst | the two leading nations of Western Europe are engaged in mortal strife—amidst the groans and cries of tens of thousands of wounded and dying men, and the tears and lamentations of countless numbers...