LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Progressing To The Role Of Deck Officer (pictured)
Unsurprisingly, the sea later beckoned and, in 1955, Robert joined the Merchant Navy as a cadet and served as an apprentice, progressing to the role of deck officer (pictured).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Brothers
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—At about 9 A M on the 21st March, during a gale from the N.W., the flat Three Brothers, of Chester, which was riding at anchor in Cemlyn Bay, exhibited a signal of distress. TheGood Shepherd Life-boat at once proceeded to...
A Pulling Boat
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. — At 6.40 on the night of the 13th of March, 1949, a man telephoned to the life-boat station that a pulling boat with two girls in it was drifting down the river Liffy. There was a fresh south- westerly wind, the sea was...
A Small War Department Motor Launch Cypress
NOVEMBER 6TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.56 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported that a small War Department motor launch, with a crew of three, had broken down and was making distress signals east of Start Point...
Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Dixon, K.C.B.
THE committee of management greatly regret the death, on 28th July, at the age of 72. of their colleague Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Bland Dixon, K.C.B. Sir Robert concluded a dis- tinguished career in the navy by serving as engineer-in...
Category: Obituaries
A Dinghy (1)
Workington, Cumberland.—At 10.50 on the night of the 21st of May, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy had been reported to be drifting towards Workington south buoy. The life-boat Man- chester & Salford XXIX...
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Category: Advertisement
Crew of the Plymouth Life-Boat
Crew of the Plymouth life-boat. Front row (I. to r.) M. Keane, reserve, D. Biscombe, emergency mechanic, F. W. Amos, 2nd coxswain, W. H. 6. Rogers, mechanic, T. Keane, assistant rnschanic.
Back row, R, Cotlerell, emergency... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 7.10 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, it was learned that the mother of one of the crew members of the Coningbeg lightvessel was dangerously ill. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 7.30 in a light variable breeze and...
The Wexford Pilot Boat
MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E. gale was blowing with a rough sea. Then the coxswain saw her drift...