LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pussy Galore
At 3.58 p.m. on 12th August, 1969, the coastguard informed the staff coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties off Minster Boom. The lifeboat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, immediately slipped her moorings in a moderate south south...
Northern Queen
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.30 p.m.
on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the trawler Northern Queen of Grimsby had engine failure about thirty eight miles eastnorth- east of Wick, and that her...
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APPENDICITIS Galway Bay. At 6.0 p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis requiring hospital treatment and had failed to obtain a boat for the journey to the...
Nelson
DECEMBER 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Warden Point that a vessel two miles to the north-east was burning flares. A westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 8.25 A.M. the...
The Coastal Steamer Spey
JANUARY 25TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 8.40 A.M. to the help of the coastal steamer Spey, of Newcastle, which had run ashore on the rocks at the north side of Coquet...
Golden Rod
MAY 22 ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. the coastguard reported that the steam drifter the Golden Rod, of Peterhead, was ashore near Slains Castle, five miles S.W. of Buchan Ness. As the weather was fine, with a...
Robert and Henry of Dundalk
On the 13th December, 1859, the brigantine Robert and Henry, of Dun- dalk, ran ashore on the Horse Bank, at the entrance of the River Mersey; intelligence being conveyed to Lytham of the disaster, the Institution's life-boat at that...
Charles H. Barrett
Charles H. Barrett, M.B.E., hono- rary secretary and treasurer of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, died on the 26th of August, 1954, at the age of 74. His successor, Mr. C. J.
Quinton, M.B.E., writes: "Since 1938...
Category: Obituaries
Bronze Medal for a Shore-Boat Service
THE Bronze Medal has been awarded to Thomas Boyle, of Seafield, Quilty, Co.
Clare, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to two other men for their gallantry in rescuing three men who had lost their boat and were marooned on...
Category: Services
Herring Boats
On the morning of the 30th June a strong N.E. gale sprang up causing a very heavy sea whilst the herring fleet were returning from the fishing grounds.
Owing to the heavy swell and surf at the Harbour entrances it was...