LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 5TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon information was received from the principal light-keeper of the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse, that one of the keepers had cut an artery in his arm and ought to be brought ashore...
'Don't let me drown'
‘ I knew I had to keep afloat. Otherwise Peter would come after me. And that thought – if I gave up he would lose his life too – kept me going.’
Peter Severs and Louisa Barrow were in awe as...
Category: Articles
Eden
TORQUAY.—About 9 P.M. on the 5th November, during a W.N.W. gale, it was reported that signals of distress were being shown by a vessel in the offing. The Mary Brundret Life-boat was launched, and on reaching the vessel, which was about...
Trawlers Celtia and Toronto
DECEMBER 2ND. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 3.11 A.M. the Kilchoman coastguard reported a vessel ashore in the Sound of Islay. The weather was fine, with a light S.W. wind and a calm sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched...
Cape Sable
On the 25th June, the steam trawler Cape Sable, of Hull, ran aground in a very dangerous place near Hoy Head, in a dense fog.
She was homeward bound from, the fishing grounds at the Faroes, and carried a crew of twelve. A...
A Life-Boat Band
This Amateur Orchestra, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, of Altrincham, Manchester, and their eight sons, id the Institution on many occasions at dances and garden parties. Mr. O' Brien has also been for has helped jy pa several... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cllfford James
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IX you remcmlxT how practical and compact...
Category: Advertisement
Alliance and Golden Light
PENZANCE.—At about 3 A.M., on the 8th December, signals of distress having been observed about a quarter of a mile east of the Albert Quay, the Life-boat Dora was launched and pulled in the direction where the light was first...
A Boat
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a small boat was missing from the harbour.
There were marks in the sand indicat- ing that she had been dragged...
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards