LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JUNE 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A request was received from the principal light-keeper at Tuskar Rock for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick man from the light-house. A very strong southwest gale was blowing, with a very rough...
Ex-Coxswain John Howells, of Fishguard
EX-COXSWAIN JOHN HOWELLS, of Fish- guard, died on 14th March at the age of 72. He was Coxswain of the Fishguard Life-boat from 1910 to 1921.. In December, 1920, he was awarded the Institution's Gold Medal for the ser- vice to the Dutch...
Category: Obituaries
Indian Chief
RAMSGATE.—Captain BRAINE, the harbour- master of Ramsgate, in reporting the noble service rendered by the Ramsgate Life-boat on the 6th January, on the occasion of the wreck of the ship Indian Chief, on the Long Sands, states that the vessel...
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1967 Three Bronze Medals for Welsh crew Three members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans,...
Category: Articles
Sydia
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 16th September a party of three women and a man went cruising in the motor yacht Sydia. The sea was rather rough, with a strong N.E. breeze.
The yacht ran across the...
Prelude and Marie Christine
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.20 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, two French trawlers, the Prelude and the Marie Christine, were reported to have broken down 10 miles west of Ardnamurchan.
The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
A Vessel
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford— 14th January, 1938. Flares had been reported outside the harbour, but the vessel which made them was only waiting for the tide in order to enter the roads.—Rewards, £15..
Corsea
At 5.35 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a large vessel was reported aground on the Gunfleet Sands, but there was no immediate danger. The honorary secretary and the coxswain went to the coastguard lookout and saw the collier Corsea hard aground...
Lillies
On .the night of the 30th this life- boat again put off. The ship Lillies, with 1,600 tons of coals on board, be- longing to St. John's, New Brunswick, and bound from Liverpool to Bombay, showed signals of distress off Fleetwood, when...
H.M.S Niger
A few minutes after mid-day on the llth November Coxswain William Adams, of the North Deal Life-boat, was called out, and it was reported to him that a man-of-war had been blown up. He at once hurried to the beach and saw that a cruiser was...