LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February the Coastguard re- j ported that the Girdler Light-vessel was firing distress signals, and shortly after- wards a message was received by wire- less telegraphy from a steamer stating that the Girdler...

PENMON.—On the 3rd July the schooner Broughty Castle, of Bamsey, Jaden with salt, stranded on the Causeway Bock in a strong N.W. breeze. The Life-boat Christopher Brown went to her assistance and attempted to heave her off, but the hawser...

IN the New Year's Honours list, Mr.

Charles H. Barrett, who ha's been the honorary secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund since 1938, and Mr.

William Francis Thomas Powell, who has been...

'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn. - View image in PDF

with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24 August.. - View image in PDF

Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in...

On the 17th November the motor fishing boat Mizpah, of Newhaven, which was fishing off the Seven Sisters, got into difficulties through the failure of her engine. A moderate westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...

Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...

AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...