LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taking the wheel
‘Being able to do something for someone – giving them that extra chance – you just feel pleased that you’ve done it,’ says Jennie Court, before our interview is brought to a sudden halt. We’re interrupted by the shrill ringing of a bell from...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GOD HELP OUR MEN AT SEA.
TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING BOATS CREWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1864.
Jan. 2, 1864.—The Newcastle, County Down,...
Category: Articles
Galway Life-Boat Meets Atlantic Rowers
When English Rose HI, rowed by Capt. John Ridgway (20) and Sergeant Chay Blyth (20), was sighted off the North Aran light house on 3rd September, 1966, at the end of its epic 92 day 3,000 mile voyage from Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A., the...
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Lifeboats In Action
One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
Category: Services
Life-Boatmen In London (1)
THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.
Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...
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A Sailboard (1)
Sail board in trouble AT 1553 on Wednesday, November 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Aberystwyth lifeboat station was informed by Milford Haven coastguard that a board sailor was in trouble just outside the mouth of Aberystwyth...
Signals of Distress
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
THE terrible loss of the Nbrthfleet, and of nearly 400 human beings, who had en- trusted themselves to her safe keeping, has strikingly indicated the need, which had often previously been felt, of some...
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The Hamble Inshore Rescue Boat and another Boat
Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...