LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Boat Show
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...
Category: Articles
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
Frank, of Grimsby
WITHERNSEA.—On the 8th January, at 5 A.M., the smack Frank, of Grimsby, having on board a crew of 10 persons, was driven ashore off Waxholme, 2 miles north of Withernsea, during an E.S.E.
gale, accompanied by a heavy sea....
A Large Ship The Oriental, of North Shields
On the 29th January the services of the Caister No. 1 Life-boat, the Birmingham, were called into requisition. She had been summoned to the aid of an Italian barque, then on the " Cross " Sand, where lights and flares were seen to...
Broughty Castle
PENMON.—On the 3rd July the schooner Broughty Castle, of Bamsey, Jaden with salt, stranded on the Causeway Bock in a strong N.W. breeze. The Life-boat Christopher Brown went to her assistance and attempted to heave her off, but the hawser...
Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast
BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most generous...
Category: Obituaries
Eagle
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boat Eagle put out at 1 P.M. on the 16th May to haul crab and lobster pots. After she had been gone for about an hour the sea got very rough, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at...
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Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10 P.M. on the 19th February, 1938, the harbour look-out reported that a fishing boat had not returned as expected. Later a mast-light was seen, and as it was stationary, the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow...
Crest
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past eight in the evening, on the 19th of May, 1950, a telephone call from Port Skerra reported a fishing boat flying distress signals. At 8.45 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a strong...
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Valentla, Co. Kerry. — During bad weather in December, 1951, the Valentia Radio Station was damaged and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs decided to establish an emergency station at Cork. On the 30th it asked the life-boat station if...