LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seabreeze
ANOTHER FISHING BOAT TOWED IN New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a vessel burning signals of distress three miles to the north of Aberayron. The pulli ng and sailing life-boat...
Doubled Annuities
LAST year the Institution greatly increased the retaining fees paid to the officers of life-boats. It also increased the payments made to crews and launchers for exercise launches, and brought in a new scale of rewards for services.
Category: Articles
Switha
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of September, 1948, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was on the Barber Sands flying her flag upside down, and the motor life-boat Jose Neville was launched at 6.30,...
None (5)
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...
World Concord (1)
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Lady Francis Osborne
LADY FRANCIS OSBORNE, who died on the 13th of March at the age of 87, was an honorary life governor of the Institution. This is the highest honour which the Institution can confer on a voluntary worker.
Lady Francis Osborne...
Category: Obituaries
Hilda, Reliance and Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather on the 2nd January, 1939. A N.E. breeze wasblowing, with a rough sea. The Eagle came in and reported that the boats still at sea were in danger...
Fishing Boats (2)
FISHING BOATS ADRIFT Valentia, Co. Kerry.—During a north- west gale with a rough sea on the 23rd of April, 1947, several fishing boats broke adrift. One drifted towards the mainland and was in danger of being wrecked. The motor life-boat...
A Boat (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 8 p.m. on 18th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted one and a half miles south of South Shields pier. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 8.5 in a...
A Dinghy (1)
Dover, Kent - At 3.30 p.m. on 15th May, 1968, while the life-boat Faithful Forester was on exercise, a dinghy was seen to capsize throwing two men into the water. There was a moderate breeze from the south west and a corresponding sea. It...