LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Meath, of Dublin, and the Admiralty Examinaion Vessel Manx Lad
AUGUST 16TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 7.40 A.M. the coastguard reported that an explosion had occurred on the S.S. Meath, of Dublin, which was entering the harbour for examination. The weather was fine, with a light N.W....
An R. A. F. Twin -Engine Fighter Monoplane
MARCH 13TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.24 A.M. an R.A.F. twin - engine fighter monoplane landed on the sands about 250 yards west of Bispham Slade, and was unable to take off again. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received...
A Naval Officer's Gratitude
AT six o'clock in the morning on the 5th of December, 1947, the Bembridge motor life-boat, Jesse Lumb, went out to the help of a vessel firing signals of distress about four miles south-east of St. Catherine's Point. A gale was...
Category: Services
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 170, 181 and 194, the following launches on service were made during the months of March to May, 1966, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
Farewell. Memories of Sixty Years
1904 to 1947—a long period, but a very pleasant time of work and progress in life-boat design. For seventeen years before that, I had the privilege of carrying out, under his supervision, the'designs produced by the late G....
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat In the Antarctic
Ix 1946 Colonel Niall Rankin, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S., F.R.G.S., of Calgary, in the Isle of Mull, went out to the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic.
He sailed in October in a whale factory ship, taking with him a motor...
Category: Articles
Catherine and Osnabrick
FISHGUARD.—On the 15th of September this place was visited by a very strong gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea. The smack Catherine, of Cardigan, bound thence to Swansea, in ballast, and the brigantine Osnabrick, of Papenberg,...
J. W. A., of Newquay
During a strong gale from the N.N.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 21st February, two i vessels were at anchor in this roadstead.
One of them was labouring very heavily; ' and at last she exhibited a signal of dis...
Rapid
A few minutes after 8 P.M. on the 8th January the Coastguard reported that distress sig- nals were being fired from the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel, and without delay the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched. They found the...
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