LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 13th October, 1961, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick woman cff the island of Inishere and an injured child from Kilronan and bring them...
Rhuddlan Castle
RAMSGATE.—At midnight on the 30th of March signals were fired by the Gull and Goodwin Lightships, and a flare was seen on the North Sand Head. The Bradford Life-boat stationed at Ramsgate put out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...
An Aeroplane
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Reclaim, of Lowestoft
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 10th June the steam drifter Reclaim, of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on Middle Beach, West Angle Bay. A moderate west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but the weather...
Pollyanna
Five saved as stranded yacht sinks on rising tide Both of Harwich's lifeboats were involved in a service to the yacht Pollyanna last August when she grounded on the Cork Sands and eventually rolled over while a lifeboat crew member, a...
Marion, Industry, Telegraph
The steamer G.K.C., of Noirmontiers, stranded on the Doom Bar on the 4th May. The schooner was first observed making for the harbour at 8.45 A.M., and, after rounding Stepper Point, she struck the Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Arab was promptly...
Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing-cobles, when returning from their fishing on the 23rd October, were overtaken by a heavy sea. Most of them succeeded in making the harbour in safety, but the last boat, which was some distance behind the others, was ex...
Brit
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
A Whaler from H.M.S. Bulwark
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.55 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a naval whaler was in difficulties one mile north-cast of Strumble Head.
The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 12.50 early on the morning of the 14th of July, 1955, the Civic Guard at Bannow telephoned that two Bannow men had put out in a fishing boat at eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th, but had not been heard of...