LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sad loss of sail training vessel
Portush and Red Bay lifeboats were launched when the sail training vessel The Lord Rank ran aground off the coast of Co Antrim on 8 June.
There were six people onboard the 21m yacht – five radio DJs and the skipper. In a 4...
Category: Articles
Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The life- boat Frederick and Emma was launched at one o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1949, in a north- westerly gale with a heavy sea, to the help of the local fishing boat Ocean Vanguard, which was...
Ros Bui
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 10.40 on the morning of the 15th May, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ros Bui of Dublin had broken down three miles north-west of Lemon Rock. At 11.3, when the life-boat...
El Toro
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.35 a.m. on 22nd June, 1965, two members of the inshore rescue boat crew saw the motor cruiser El Toro in difficulties with engine failure one mile south-south-east of St Ives head. At 10.38 the inshore rescue boat...
A Cabin Cruiser
At 4.30 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, it was noticed that a cabin cruiser was broaching to in broken water on the North Tail. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker proceeded at 4.45 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was low water. A...
Amber
At 11.5 a.m. on 2yth February, 1967, it was indicated that concern was felt for six fishing boats which were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions. There was a gale from the south south east with a very rough sea.
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
At the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 18th inst., and presided over by Mr. Chae. G. Turner, C.B., Comptroller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the...
Category: Meetings
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th. January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that during the past...
Category: Meetings
Letters
In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
Category: Correspondence
Elizabeth, of Goole
SKEGNESS.—On the 14th April, at 8.30 A.M., the ketch Elizabeth, of Goole, while on a voyage from London to Gainsbro', was observed off this station in a disabled state, with signal of distress flying, and the crew in the rigging. A gale,...