LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Girl Alice
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 1.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Girl Alice had lost her rudder and was drifting near the Barrels lightvessel. At 2.13, when the...
Courtown: Buzzcut for the Boats
Courtown Sailing Club (CSC) member Paddy Mac Namara has raised €1,760 for the RNLI. Paddy let his hair grow for a year and then had it all shaved off – branding his event a Buzzcut for the Boats. The very generous donations came from members...
Category: Articles
Far Left: Crew Members from Burnham-On-Crouch
Far left: Crew members from Burnham-on- Crmich, in Essex, receive free training from Cannington College for their new quad bike, donated by Western Power Distribution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Industry and The Mizpah
On the 14th September the Life-boat Dunleary was launched at 2.23 P.M. during a very strong S.S.W. gale to the assistance of two trawlers which were in difficulties in Dublin Bay. One vessel was named the Industry and the other the...
The S.S. Afon Gwili
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.27 in the morning of the 1st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Afon Gwili, of Llanelly, had anchored about a mile to the south-east of Yarmouth, and had asked...
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During the same fierce gale, on 9th July, the Life-boat at Totland Bay was called out. Shortly after midnight the Brooke Station reported that its Boat was being launched, and at 1.35 another message was received that a vessel three or four...
Mark H. Leach
HELPLESS WITH BROKEN RUDDER Peterhead, Aberdeenihire.—At about 4.30 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1947, the coastguard re- ported that a vessel was burning flares three miles south-east by east of the coastguard station, and the...
Mary Brocklebank
At 10.30 P.M.
on the 7th January the Coxswain of the Life-boat Christopher Brown received information by telephone from the light- keeper at Trwyn Dhu Lighthouse, that a vessel in close proximity to the Dutch- man Bank was...
New Brunswick
On Sunday the 25th November, intelligence was received that a large foreign barque was riding at her anchors offBeachy Head Lighthouse, in a very dangerous position, with a signal of distress flying.
With as little delay as...
Obituary
The Institution deeply regrets the death of two of its vice-presidents who have given it long and distinguished service, Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., and Mr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, and of Vice- Admiral Sir Robert...
Category: Obituaries