LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elizabeth
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 11.15 on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary saw the yacht Elizabeth capsize during a yacht race.
The life-boat R.P.L. put out at 11.20 in a choppy sea. A westerly wind of...
Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the morning of the 9th April the Beadnell and North Sunderland fishing boats put to sea, but the weather became bad and eight of them returned.
At 10.30 A.M. a very strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy...
Rosario Lopez
SPANISH TRAWLER AGROUND IN GALE Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 31st December, 1962, the harbour master at Bantry reported that a Spanish trawler had run ashore at Adrigole, and at 1.30 the life-boat Sarah Tilson was...
Ruby
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. —• At 8.10 in the evening on the 19th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that men had been seen waving from a small boat about five miles north by east of Peter- head, and the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...
Royalty at Exmouth
The Duchess of Kent took over the wheel of Exmouth life-boat, City of Birmingham, during a brief visit to the town's life-boat station on 14th May. Coxswain Brian Rowsell, who stood beside her in the wheel-house, said she showed a...
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Sea Breeze
On the evening of the 19th July the Coxswain was told by boatmen that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Long Nose Buoy, and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. A light easterly breeze was blow- ing and the sea was smooth. The...
Isallt
At 10 P.M. on the night of the 15th October, during a whole N. by E. gale with a very heavy sea—one of the worst gales for some years—distress flares were seen to the S.W. of Moelfre Island. They came from the schooner Isallt, of Skibbereen,...
A Cabin Cruiser
Rosslare Harbour, Wexford - At 1.45 p.m. on 7th November, 1966, the Tuskar Rock lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a submerged cabin cruiser had been reported in the vicinity of the rock. The life-boat Douglas Hyde...
Assurity
Selsey, Sussex.—-The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 12.30 A.M., on the 26th November, 1938, as flares had been seen some miles S.S.E.
A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. The...
RETIREMENT
Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie, C.B., D.S.C., Hydrographer of the Navy, retired in February and his place as ex-officio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, is beingtaken by Rear Admiral G. P. D. Hall,...
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