LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Conningbeg Lightship
NOV. 26TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received that there was a sick man on the Conningbeg Lightship who had to be moved immediately to hospital, and that the Irish Lights tender was unable...
Right: Cape Town's 12M Lifeboat.
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ariadne (1)
ALDEBDRGH, SUFFOLK, and HARWICH, ESSEX.—The Aldeburgh No. 2 Life- boat Edward Dresden was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the 19th June in a strong westerly breeze and moderate sea to the assistance of the s.s. Ariadne, of London, ashore on the...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past ten on the morning of the 1st of Febru- ary, 1950 the honorary secretary of the Wick life-boat station telephoned that a doctor wanted to be conveyed to Stroma, where medical aid was urgently needed. He...
Impulsive
Margate, Kent. At 10.20 on the morning of the 18th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser, which he had been keeping under observation, had stoppedand that two people on board were waving frantically from the...
Cantick Head
About midnight on the 19th October a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel in the south bay was burning flares. A whole N.N.W. to N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and snow. The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught put...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 31st August, 1939.
Paid £31,992 16s. 6d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways...
Category: Committee
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OCTOBER 27TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. AN-.TRIM. In the afternoon an R.A.F. sergeant was walking in the neighbourhood of Ramore Head with a leading aircraftwoman, and was washed into the sea at Reviggery Point. His companion went for help and the...
Communications Received
Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association.—Rock off Fastnet, Cape Clear.—Tallies on Rocket and Mortar Lines.—Wreck of the Ship Columtus at Hook Point, Waterford, in January, 1852.
Category: Articles
Lady Amanda
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...