LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brownrigg
WINTERTON.—The No. 2 Life-boat, the Husband, was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 13th August to the assistance of the four-masted ship Brownrigg, of Liverpool, bound from Hull for Cardiff in ballast, which, having been damaged by collision with...
Topsy
EXMOUTH. — A telegram from Dawlish was received at midday on the 7th October, stating that the services of the Life-boat were urgently needed by a vessel lying off that place. A gale of wind was blowing from the W.W.W., and there was a very...
Midsummer
The smack Midsummer of Douglas was lying in the bay on the evening of the 2nd September, when the wind changed to N.N.W., increased to a moderate gale, and a heavy sea rose. The smack com- menced to drag her anchor, and the Master, who was...
Pearl, Ellen Harrison, Ford Fisher and Isabella
At about 5 P.M. on the llth November, during a northerly gale, signals of distress were seen from the schooner Pearl, of Chester, which was bound from Con- nah's Quay to Dublin with a cargo of fire-clay. The Life-boat Charles and Eliza...
Sensation
ALDEBURGH.—On the morning of the 1st November the coastguard on duty reported that guns were being fired and signal flags shown on board a vessel aground on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, theTe was a moderately rough...
Mary Ann
— The schooner Mary Ann of Faversham, •whilst bovmd from London to Hull -with a cargo of chalk, on the 26th August stranded on the Gunfleet sand. Infor- mation reached Walton by telephone from the Lighthouse at 5.17 A.M., and with very...
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Galway Bay. At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 10th of December, 1959, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat could take a patient, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inisheer to Rossaveal pier on the...
An Aeroplane (14)
JULY 28TH . - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane which had on board the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, making for Belfast, was reported as missing.
She had last been seen out at sea three miles S.S.E....
In Tenby Harbour
The Porthdinllaen and Barmouth life-boats on the sand alongside the quay. On the other side of the quay is the Tenby life-boathouse and slipway.
From photographs by Mr, A. R. Hughes, a member of the crew of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Galway's Arun uses inflatable to snatch skin divers to safety from surfCoxswain Padraig Dillane and Crew Members Seamus Flaherty and Mairtin Fitzpatrick of the Galway Bay lifeboat have been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National...