LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On a Lee Shore
off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...
Category: Drawings
New Ways of Raising Money
A COLLECTION in aid of the Institution was made at the Silverstone Inter- national Trophy meeting on the 15th of May by kind permission of the Daily Express and the British Racing Drivers' Club. A total of £131 7s....
Category: Donations
H.M.S. Witherington
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.30 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
A Fishing Smack
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 4 P.M. on the 2nd August, during a southerly gale, a fishing smack belonging to Llanaelhaiarn had her sails carried away when ten miles from port, and was seen drifting to the N. before the storm. The Life-boat Cotton...
Countess of Caithness
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th March, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Countess of Caithness', of Gloucester, bound from Limerick to Port William, N.B., with a cargo of bones....
Volga
On 24th June the yacht Volga, of Kingstown, entered Carlingford Lough in a norther- ly gale and experienced considerable difficulty in coming to anchor. She eventually anchored under the Coast- guard station. On the morning of 25th June she...
Hawarden Castle
At 5 A.M. on the 16th January the Coastguard reported to the Honorary Secretary that a vessel was ashore about a quarter of a mile north of Britannia Pier. The Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched in a fresh S.S.W....
A Pilot Wherry
WEXFORD.—While a strong gale was blowing from the S.S.E., on the llth January, a pilot wherry which was in tow of a steamer was observed to let go the tow-rope and come to an anchor, being unable to tow any further in such a heavy sea as was...
An Aeroplane
Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 P.M. on the 14th May, 1938, a man reported that he had seen an aeroplane come down in the sea about six miles S.E. of South Foreland.
A gentle S.S.W. breeze wasblowing, with a calm sea. The motor...
St. Joseph
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At eleven o'clock on the night of the 13tn of March, 1950, the Hook Tower light- house keeper reported that a boat was making flares two miles south-west of Hook. The flares and S.O.S. signals on...