LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dinorah
At 7.45 on the morning of llth February, with a strong wind and a very heavy sea, the Donna Nook Life-boat was called out to the help of the steam trawler Dinorah, which was in distress at Haile Flat. The Boat was successfully launched at...
Mr. Ernest Armstrong
BY the death of Mr. Ernest Armstrong, of Eastbourne, on the 3rd of June, 1952, at the age of 78, the Life-boat Service has lost one of its most devoted and energetic friends, and the committee of management a col- league whose help and...
Category: Obituaries
Theodore Kassopulos
COXSWAIN PILOTS GREEK VESSEL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 9.25 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a light had been reported flashing a mile eastward of Hartlepool.
There...
CLIFF FACE
ACHILL ISLAND | 5 JANUARY
Volunteers from Achill Island launched their all-weather lifeboat when two hill walkers got stuck 60m up a steep cliff face near Mweelrea Mountain, Co Mayo. Low visibility prevented the Coast Guard...
Category: Services
Dun Angus
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.45 on the night of the 9th of August, 1958, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Dun Angus of Dublin needed help some six to seven miles south of Skelligs Rock, as her...
Two Dinghies
FOUR RESCUED IN DINGHY RACE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 11.54 on the morning of the 15th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a request for help had been received from the Gorleston...
Solva Mystery Solved
This photograph, of what was obviously at one time an RNLI station, was taken by me last year at the little port of Solva in Pembrokeshire.
Would any readers know the history of this station? Mr PA Hindley Llanyblodwel... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (1)
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 26th October, 1941, determined efforts were made by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat to give help to the crew of the S.S. English Trader, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A....
Category: Medals
Schollevaer (1)
Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 9.15 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was drifting off Cranfield. Shortly afterwards they reported her in distress, and at 9.50 the life-boat L.P. and St.
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Cyril Richards
Cyril Richards who was an honorary member of the Hornchurch and Rainham branch. He joined the branch in 1962 and became vice-chairman in 1973 until 1983 when he resigned due to ill health..
Category: Obituaries