LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pegasus
HOLYHEAD. — Signals of distress were fired at 6.30 A.M., on the 9th December,1886, by the ship Pegasus, of and for Liverpool, laden with timber, which was in danger amongst the breakers in the S.E. part of the bay during a N.W.
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Boy Jermyn
OCTOBER 20TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th the coastguard reported that a steamer in the harbour was making signals of distress. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat crew...
Maud Mary (1)
DEC. 17TH. -POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, AND SWANAGE, DORSET. The schooner Maud Mary, flying the Polish flag, had gone ashore west of the Old Harry Rocks, but the crew got away in their own boat.
- Rewards: Poole and Bournemouth...
An Aeroplane (7)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea north of the Stags of Broadhaven, Co.
Mayo, but. the lifeboat and an R.A.F. rescue ship could find no survivors. The...
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APRIL 20TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
A little girl had been reported missing on an island, and the life-boat with its searchlight searched the shores of the island by night without success. Next day the girl was found by...
A Fishing Boat
— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
Balloon Races
FOUR branches have carried out balloon races with great success this year.
At St. Albans, where the race was being held for the third time, about a thousand balloons were sent off, of which eighty-five were...
Category: Articles
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.
It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...
Category: Advertisement
Good-Bye to a Life-Boat By R W Frazer
WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...
Category: Articles
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Very much an Inshore Lifeboat...
West Kirby's D class inflatable took the term Inshore Lifeboat literally on 14January 1991, when the crew took her 14 miles by road and through the Mersey Tunnel to rescue a boy and his...