LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetlands.-—On the 9th of Jan- uary, 1956, the doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him and a relieving nurse to Foula, because con- tinuous bad weather had isolated the island for nearly a month and at least two people...
Mr Erskine Childers
It is also with great regret that we record the death of His Excellency the President of Ireland, Mr Erskine Hamilton Childers. The condolences of the Institution have been conveyed to his widow and the RNLI was represented at the funeral in...
Category: Obituaries
A Vessel (6)
APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
A vessel was reported to be in difficulties, with a sloop standing by, but in the gale which was blowing, with a very heavy sea running, it was impossible for the sloop to pass a rope and...
Sarah A. Purdy
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.50 A.M. on the 20th December, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore in the harbour entrance. A light east breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell, and the weather was very cold, with dense fog. The...
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Galway Bay.—At 2.30 in the morn- ing of the 18th of August, 1949, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take to the mainland a boy who was on holiday in Kilronan, had fallen ill, and must be operated on immediately. No other boat was...
Empire Scout (1)
JANUARY 8TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.40 in the morning the port war signal station at Teesmouth reported two vessels in distress off the port. The Teesmouth lifeboat crew were assembled and...
Saving Life from Shipwreck
THE beneficial results of life-boats and the mortar and rocket apparatus in saving life from shipwreck cannot be overrated; and the following account of their services to shipwrecked crews on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past...
Category: Articles
A Motor Launch
Taking water A LIGHT, CONFIRMED to be a signal for help from a vessel behind the rocks at Irelands Eye, three quarters of a mile north east of Howth lifeboat station, was seen by the harbour master at 2125 on Tuesday, July...
An Aircraft
Wells, and Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.48 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic of the Wells life- boat that an aircraft had crashed into the sea off South Race Bank buoy. At eleven...
Achroite
TRAWLER BREAKS FROM MOORINGS IN STRONG GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 5th February, 1963, Ilfracombe radio station informed the honorary secretary that the principal keeper of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse...