LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Auk
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.43 on the evening of the 19th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the rocks at Groomsport.
At six o'clock the life-boat Sir Samuel...
Life-Boat Inns
A NEW inn at Caister, Norfolk, is to be named "Never Turn Back." This name commemorates a disaster and one of the most memorable sayings in the history of the Life-boat Service.
The disaster occurred on the 13th...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
The naming of Arbroath's new Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape went ahead on 22 April 1994 despite the unfortunate accident sustained by the namer, HRH Princess Alexandra, two days before the ceremony. The Countess of Airlie cvo, wife of...
Category: Inaugurations
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1963 The disaster at Seaham Harbour in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
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Category: Articles
Tricia
TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and...
Saltee
WEXFORD.—During a gale from the N.E., with sleet showers and a rough sea, on the 16th March, signals of distress were shown by the barque Saltee, of and for "Wexford, laden with wooden goods, which had stranded on the south side of the...
Cwm Avon
GREENCASTLE, LONDONDERRY.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel on the TODS Bank, while the wind was blowing half a gale from the S.S.W., with a heavy sea, the Life-boat temporarily placed here while the Mary Beckwith was being...
A Speed Boat
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 4.30 a.m. on 22nd September, 1969, the honorary secretary received an anticipatory message from the coastguard reporting that a speedboat with three men on board was overdue from a fishing trip. At 8.13 the coastguard...
Dyrhaug
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.42 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man living in Lerwick had heard on his radio a Norwegian motor fishing vessel asking for help as she was ashore on...
Ben Hiant
Very early on the 19th October the auxiliary yacht Ben Hiant, of Stornoway, pleasure cruising with four persons on board, was sheltering in Campbeltown Loch. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The weather was thick and...