LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...
Category: Services
Ocean
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The Albert Edward Life-boat put off at about 7.30 P.M. on the 14th October, in reply to signals of distress, during a very strong N.W. wind and very rough sea. After cruising about for some time the schooner Ocean, of Goole,...
Pax
YOUGHAL, co. CORK.—On the morning of the 16th July, the barque Pax, of Liverpool, outward bound with a general cargo, stranded about half a mile north of Knockadoon Head, having lost some of her sails, while a moderate gale was blowing from...
"Capstan Bars."
Walk Around Chanty BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CKAUFURD, R.N., Honorary Secretary of the Dungeness Life-boat Station.
" We were much relieved, when dawn broke, to see our boat beating home in the offing. As there had been no...
Category: Songs
400 Hours' Labour
A MODEL of the 51-feet Barnett Strom- ness motor life-boat George Shee, which is stationed at Torbay, has been made by Mr. Charles Young of Dartmouth, and his staff, and by Alderman F.
Scardifield, also of Dartmouth. It...
Category: Articles
Arthur Rogers
ESCORTING A YACHT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Redsands about two miles south-east of Redsand Towers and that seas were...
Viper
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the morning of the llth January, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Viper's engine broke down when she was fishing about half a mile west of Ramore Head. She carried a crew of four. Another fishing boat, The...
May Queen
Eastbourne, Sussex. — During the afternoon of the 5th April, 1938, with a fresh west breeze blowing and a moderate sea, the motor yacht May Queen, of Lowestoft, bound from there to Littlehampton, was capsized about a mile off Eastbourne...
Florence II
Exmouth, Devon.—The motor lifeboat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 11.30 A.M. on the 27th July, 1938, to the auxiliary yacht Florence II, of Southampton, which had been under observation by the coastguard for some time. A fresh and...
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.45 oi\ the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1953, a local boatman reported that a girl had fallen over a cliff into the sea at the Nose of Howth, half a mile from the harbour. At 2.55 the life-boat...