LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the morning of the 20th February, 1962, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that a French fishing vessel with her trawl net entangled in her propeller needed help south of...

Informa- tion reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was launched and proceeded to...

IN the columns of each number of this Journal we have had the pleasure to record numerous instances of our life-boats' services to shipwrecked crews. When it is remembered under what difficult and dangerous circumstances those services...

JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...

On the 8th February, about 2 A.M., the ship Hemanos, of Lillesand, bound to Leith with a cargo of guano, was reported ashore about two miles to the northward of Cresswell and firing signals of distress.

The weather was...

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On the 1st December, the coxswain of the North Briton life-boat, and 6 other men, with 2 horses, proceeded at midnight along the coast upwards of fcrar miles in the direction of Gramthorpe Haven, and there found a schooner on the sands, and...

THURSDAY, 1st June, 1882.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chair- man of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and...