LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mirrie
On the 31st December the Life- boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the smack Mirre, stranded on the rocks under Summerlies Point. A heavy ground sea had set in after the Mirre grounded, which made the...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1956, the office of the Irish Lights in Dublin telephoned that there was an injured man on the Coningbeg light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would bring him...
Gudveig and the Latvian Steamer Everene
JANUARY 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Norwegian steamer Gudveig, of Oslo, and the Latvian steamer Everene, of Riga, had been sunk by mine or torpedo, but other steamers had picked up a...
Simple Shopping.
ULTRA SMART VAC AT A GLANCE • Superlight • 181/2ft extra long • Long reach f'ex handle • Crevice and floor tools included • No bags required • After sales service • Converts to a Hand Vac in seconds Cleaning's a doddle with~ Whatever...
Category: Advertisement
(Above) Wheelhouse Looking Forward from Steering Position Past Wheel and Compass In Its Binnacle to the Engine Room After Bulkhead Various Control Switches and T
(Above) Wheelhouse, looking forward from steering position past wheel and compass in its binnacle to the engine room after bulkhead.
Various control switches and the revolution counters are under the coxswain's eye.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Guinea for a Paper Flag
ON Life-boat Day in Blackheath Village, one of the collectors visited a factory where an auction was being held of the building and plant.
She asked the auctioneer to put up one of her paper flags. This he did, and it was...
Category: Donations
Balnagask
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 5.33 on the evening of the 19th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaiy that red flares had been seen north of the coastguard look-out. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
The Mail Steamer Banshee
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched at 12.30 AM. on the 14th of January, 1887, to the assistance of the mail-steamer Banshee, of and from Dublin for Holyhead, which had stranded in Towyn Bay during a dense fog. The steamer, which had a...
Margaret and Ann
NAIRN.—The fishing-yawl Margaret and Ann was seen in the bay, about five hundred yards east of Nairn harbour, in a critical position, while a gale was blowing from the S.W. and a high sea was running, at about 1 P.M. on the 27th June. She...
A Boat (3)
Porthdinlliaen, Caernarvonshire - At 8.45 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a man had swum ashore from a boat which was in difficulties one mile from Trevor point. There were four others on...