LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 4.35 in the afternoon, on the 2nd of July, 1950, the Hayle police reported a man outside the breakers off Gwithian beach, a bather, missing. At 4.58 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched,...
Margaret
LYDD, DUNOENESS.—On the evening of the 10th of January, signals of distress were shown by a vessel anchored in the East Bay, Dungeness, during a moderate W.S.W. gale and a rough sea. The David Hulett Life-boat was launched at 6.30 P.M., and...
Maisie
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 5.20 a.m. on I5th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Maisie of Caernarvon had broken down six miles south west by west of Portpatrick. A message received...
Verbena
The Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Vulcan, were called out by guns from the Gall Light-vessel, and a flare on the Goodwin Sands at 8 P.M. on the 21st February, during a fresh breeze from the N. On Hearing the sands the Life-boat left the...
Technology Update for ILC Delegates
(Continued from page 202) hammers and crowbars to break windows and glass partitions, aluminium ladders, harnesses, slings, folding basket stretchers and as many portable lights as possible.
Delegates were also able to draw...
Category: Meetings
Dun Laoghaire September 201986:
Dun Laoghaire, September 20,1986: It was not only a D class inflatable lifeboat that was being handed over to Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station, but a boathouse as well. Sean Barrett, TD (left), Minister of State to the Taoiseach, on behalf of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1960, a request was received from the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the life-boat to bring ashore an injured keeper from Tuskar Rock light- house and take...
Tradewind, Ariba and Title Boxer
Arun at sea for 14 hours on three services to yachts in trouble Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell was at sea for almost 14 hours in one 25-hour period when she received three separate calls from yachts in trouble on 9...
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SICK MAN TAKEN TO MAINLAND St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 11.40 on the morning of the 6th January, 1962, a local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a man to Penzance for an emergency operation for acute...
Alcide
The schooner Alcide, of Dunkirk, stranded in the East Bay, Dungeness, soon after I A.M. on the 28th February, but as she made no signals she was not seen. At 7 A.M. the vessel was observed, and a tug pro- ceeded to her and towed her into...