LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mollia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 8.20 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1958, the Bailey lighthouse keeper telephoned the honorary secretary to say a radio message had been received from Tusker Rock lighthouse that a trawler was adrift...
Wellington
On the evening of the 10th November a mounted messenger arrived, and reported that a vessel was riding at anchor in the bay outside the bar, and making signals for the Life-boat. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W at the time. The...
Fourteen Men Rescued from Motor Vessel
COXSWAIN William Harland of Whitby has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of the crew of fourteen of the motor vessel Fred Everard of London on 2yth November, 1965.
The honorary...
Category: Services
Income and Expenditure for 1927
Lite-boats:- EXPENDITURE. t s. a. £ New Life-boats for the following stations : — On account — Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Piel (Barrow), Rosslare Harbour, Southend-on-Sea, Stromness, Swanage, and Walton-on-Naze, etc 33,252 7 3 Provision of...
Category: Accounts
Sea Hawkinge
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 31st August the motor yacht Sea Hawk, of Nottingham, got into difficulties after her engine had broken down, and ran aground in a very dangerous position three miles N.E. of Spurn. She was...
Patricia Peggy
WASHED ASHORE Hastings, Sussex. At 7.25 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the skipper of the fishing boat Patricia Peggy telephoned the honorary secretary to say that because of engine failure his boat had been washed ashore at low water in the...
Oceanic Liberty
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 1.25 a.m.
on 16th February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Oceanic Liberty had gone ashore on the south side of St. Gare lighthouse.
The...
Sea Pegasus
MOTOR LAUNCH TAKEN IN TOW Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had broken down and was drifting out to sea a mile east-by-south of Penmon...
A Meteor Aircraft (1)
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.— At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station to say the R.A.F. station at Worthing had reported that two airmen were baling out of a...
A Rowing Punt
FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...