LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gay Star (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 9.37 p.m. on 9th April, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Gay Star had requested assistance eight miles north west of Strumbie head. Apparently her engine had failed. She carried a crew of...
Obituaries (1)
With great regret we record the death of two Life Vice Presidents of the Institution and a noted Honorary Life Governor.
Surgeon Captain F.W.
Baskerville was elected to the Committee of Management in 1964...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. Barrie Bennetts
Mr. Barrie Bennetts, who had received the highest award the Institution can make to a voluntary worker, that of appointment as honorary life governor, died on the 26th of July, 1958, at the age of 75. He had been honorary secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Atbara
CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND
The annual report of the Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund for 1969 discloses that the total subscription received last year amounted to £28,623. This was a record. While the increase constituted arrears from the previous...
Category: Articles
None (1)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.40 On the night of the 16th of December, 1949, the Trinity House Superintendent, Holyhead, asked the life-boat to land a sick man from the South Bishop lighthouse. At 8.45 the life-boat crew assembled and...
Esther Ann
On the following night, while the schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of wheat, was attempting to beat up Dublin river during rough threatening weather, her top-sail split as she was passing the North...
Spray
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.56 on the morning of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground north-west of the Mid Barrow light- vessel. No distress signals were...
None (3)
GIRL RESCUED FROM CLIFF FACE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.57 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, the Howth garda informed the honorary secretary that the local fire brigade had been called to rescue a girl who was unable to climb up a cliff...
Ruby
Workington, Cumberland.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1957, it was learnt that the fishing boat Ruby, which had taken two Trinity House engineers out to the South Workington buoy, was adrift near the...