LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (12)
DEC. 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
The life-boat had put out at the request of the naval authorities to see if a vessel at anchor about five miles off was in distress, but her help was not needed. - Rewards, £33 11s....
Boadicea
At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty of Galway Bay, a holder of the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 25th of October, 1957. He received his medal for an outstanding service in August 1938, when the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Nogi, which...
Category: Obituaries
The Motor Boats Sea Witch and Veronica, and a Catamaran
At 12.58 p.m. on i6th October, 1966, a small catarmaran with an elderly man on board was seen in difficulties half a mile north west of the coastguard look-out.
The man appeared to be exhausted. The life-boat Elizabeth...
The Liverpool Ball
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, E.G., President of the Institution, attended a Life-boat Ball which was organized by the Port of Liverpool and District Branch and held at the Adelphi Hotel on 4th November. During the day the Prince had visited...
Category: Articles
The New Brighton Life-Boat
THE new Motor Life-boat now being built for the Institution's Station at New Brighton, the first of the 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boats with cabins, will, it is hoped, be completed and ready to be sent to her station this summer. It has...
Category: Articles
Little Zahry
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of September, 1955, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a yacht was becalmed and flash- ing a light half a mile south-west of Prawle Point. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat C.D.E.C.,...
Amber Queen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 12.5 early on the morning of the 14th of Decem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were being fired from a vessel near Fersness Point, Isle of Eday. The life-boat The John Gellatly...
Additional Life-Boat Stations
HOLYHEAD.—A new life-boat has been placed at Holyhead by the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of the old boat at that station, tow worn out. The new boat is 30 ft. long, and rows ten oars double banked.
The Lords...
Category: Articles
Congratulations to Irish Mechanic
A special letter of congratulation has been sent to Mechanic William Sliney of Ballycotton and extra monetary awards made to all the members of the Ballycotton crew for an attempted service carried out in exceptionally bad...
Category: Services