LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.55 P.M. on the llth February, 1939, a telephone message was received that the Goningbeg Light-vessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the life-boat to take ashore a man who was dangerously...
68 Years In the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has awarded a certifi- cate of service to Joseph Rourke, of Howth, co. Dublin, and has also made him a compassionate grant. He was born in 1854 and became a member of the Howth crew in 1870,-at the age of sixteen. He served...
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A LIFE-BOAT AS HEARSE Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of January 12th, 1947, the Civic Guard asked that the life-boat should put out to Great Blasket Island and bring back the body of a man.
A strong...
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Dover, Kent - At 1.50 p.m. on 8th April, 1970, the life-boat had just returned to her moorings from an earlier service call which had proved fruitless when the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three men were cut off by the tide on...
Lightvessel Irb
At the request of the Government a rescue craft provided by the Royal National Life-boat Institution is now stationed aboard a lightvessel, from which she may be used for life-saving purposes. The experiment is a joint venture by the R.N.L.I...
Category: Articles
Blue Rose
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 8.14 p.m.
on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties one and a half miles from the look-out.
The life-boat Susan Ashley...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach, and that a doctor who was attending him had asked for the...
The S.S. Persic
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.30 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the wireless operator on board the s.s. Persic of Southampton had had a heart attack and needed a doctor. After...
Fishing Boats
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. On the morning of the 26th of November, 1959, there was a very heavy swell at the entrance to the harbour, and the local fishing fleet were having difficulty in entering. Danger signals were hoist- ed, and...
Madeleine
Gt. Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.30 on the night of the 29th of December, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had reported a flare seen south-east of the lightvessel....