LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Longhope, Orkney*. — On the afternoon of the 29th March a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman patient, who was suffering from appendicitis, to Scapa for an immediate operation. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...
A Raft
Appledore, Devon.—At 3.20 in the afternoon on the llth of June, 1950, the Westward Ho! coastguard tele- phoned that a raft, with two men aboard who could not swim, was adrift and being carried out to sea. Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
Isa Simpson
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. — At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1951, Johnshaven sent a message that the local motor fishing boat Isa Simpson was disabled by an engine breakdown off Johnshaven. At 2.10 the...
A Rowing Boat
On the after- noon of the 25th June the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with six apparently inefficient persons on board was making towards harbour. Shortly afterwards a thick fog settled down and it was decided to send out the motor...
Obituary
SINCE the last number of The Life-boat appeared there have died Mr. R. O.
Hill, for many years honorary secretary at the stations of Drogheda (now closed) and Clogher Head ; Captain Thomas McCombie, of Dublin, a gold and...
Category: Obituaries
Two Picket Boats from H.M.S. Franklin
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 5.35 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, a message was received from the East Pier that two picket boats from H.M.S. Franklin, which was lying in Margate Roads, had left harbour to return to her, but had...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1952, a man on the Island of Jura reported that five men he employed had gone to Brosdale Island to collect some sheep, but were marooned there in bad weather. There was...
A Dinghy (1)
Douglas, Isle of Man - At 12.37 p.m.
on 13th August, 1968, the coastguard reported that a rubber dinghy, with two people on board, was adrift one mile east of Cornan beach. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was...
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Richard Walsh, of the Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, life-boat—the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley which is described on page 678. He became bowman in 1938, second coxswain in 1941 and finally coxswain in 1946. Coxswain Walsh was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naomh Fergus
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 3.45 p.m.
on llth July, 1969, the Ballycotton lighthouse keeper told the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted about eight miles west south west of Ballycotton. At 3.55 the life-boat...