LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sari Maris
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL FOUND IN FOG Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.15 on the evening of the 9th October, 1962, a customs officer was walking along the pier when he saw a flare being burnt in the direction of Splaugh...
A Landing Craft
JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...
A Motor Boat
AUGUST 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At about 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor boat belonging to the monks on Caldy Island had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at the back of St....
Crew of the Porthdinllaen Lifeboat In the 1950S.
When some of these award winners joined the RNLI, crews wore oilskins, sou'westers and kapok lifejackets, like those worn by the crew of the Porthdinllaen lifeboat in the 1950s. The Waveney class lifeboat Ipp22~23) was yet to be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Acacia
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1957, a message was received from Valentia radio that the trawler Acacia, of Dub- lin, needed help immediately at the mouth of Kenmare Bay. The life- boat A.E.D. put out at...
A Rubber Dinghy
At 3.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two teenagers who had set out soon after breakfast in a rubber dinghy had not returned.
In view of the dense fog and the number of boats...
Meduce
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1958, the St. Agnes coastguard informed the coxswain that a French fishing boat was anchored in the Cove with her engine broken down. A later message was passed...
H.M. Minesweeper Unicity
JANUARY 31ST. - BLYTH, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At about 12.25 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had capsized outside the piers. She was H.M. Minesweeper Unicity, with a crew of fifteen.
A light N.E. wind was blowing,...
Thunderball
Brighton, Sussex. At 3 p.m. on 24th July, 1965, whilst the station was being visited by the Station Officer, H.M.
Coastguard, Newhaven, a catamaran was seen to be in difficulties off the Palace Pier. At 3.10 the IRB...
The S.S. Montagu
WEXFORD.—On the 25th April, at 11.30 A.M., the s.s. Montagu, of Liverpool, was observed ashore on the south side of the East Bar Channel. The Civil Service Life-boat was at once launched, and was taken in tow by the steam-tug Ruly, which had...