LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At four o'clock on the afternoon of 14th April, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a man in the Tuskar Rock lighthouse had injured his eye and was in need of medical treatment.
Death of Two Honorary Workers. Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and Ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee
Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee.
THE Institution has lost two old and valued friends by the death of Mr.
Charles Arthur Myers, of Lytham, Lancashire, and ex-Lord...
Category: Obituaries
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Two Fishing Cobles
At about 11 A.M. on the 13th February, J. Crawford, the Second Coxswain of the Lifeboat Queensbury, received information that two cobles were in difficulties about four miles off Scarborough, and as the sea was very rough and becoming worse...
A Rowing Boat
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—-At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1950, the Tynemouth coast- guard telephoned that two men ap- peared to be in difficulties in a rowing boat two and a half miles to the east- ward. At 4.50 the...
Petite Marie-Claude
Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles...
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty of Galway Bay, a holder of the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 25th of October, 1957. He received his medal for an outstanding service in August 1938, when the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Nogi, which...
Category: Obituaries
Minx
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had seen a yacht on the Burbo Bank. Later she was reported to be high and dry. At 9.15 the life-boat Norman B....
Marina
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 1st of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Marina needed help as her engine had broken down off Pakefield. The life-boat Michael Stephens...
The Lobster Fishing Vessel Iris Arcain
LOBSTER FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO SAFETY Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 7.15 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1963, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio call from Valentia radio reporting a lobster fishing vessel broken down off Kerryhead. At 7.30...