LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The H.M.S. Dryad
On the 21st October the Life-boat John A. Hay was launched in response to signals of distress from H.M.S. Dryad. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing at the time with a rough sea, and the weather was dark and showery. When the Life- boat reached...
A Yacht
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 15th of September, 1950, a resident telephoned the harbour master that a yacht was in difficulties. At 6.20 the life-boat Dunleary II was launched in a smooth sea...
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 5.15 p.m.
on 29th August, 1966, it was learnt that a small open fishing boat with six men on board was missing. It was presumed to be sheltering near Puffin island. At 5.35 the life-boat Rowland...
A Speed Boat (1)
Blown offshore ON THE EVENING OF Thursday July 5, 1984, Clyde Coastguard received a 999 call after a small speedboat had been seen, broken down about three quarters of a mile off Cowan Rock, near Girvan.
Her crew of two men...
A Liberator Aeroplane (2)
MAY 17TH. - MONTROSE, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. A vessel had been reported on fire. It was a Liberator aeroplane which had crashed in the sea. A naval launch arrived first and picked up two bodies. The Arbroath life-boat did not launch, but her...
A Motor Boat (1)
Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.44 early on the morning of the 21st of June, 1955, the Rame Head coastguard telephoned to say the police had reported that a motor boat, in which two youths had put out on a fishing trip from Torpoint, was missing. At...
Patricia Peggy
WASHED ASHORE Hastings, Sussex. At 7.25 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the skipper of the fishing boat Patricia Peggy telephoned the honorary secretary to say that because of engine failure his boat had been washed ashore at low water in the...
Star of Freedom
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 8.11 p.m. on 9th May, 1967, it was learned that the fishing vessel Star of Freedom had engine trouble and was drifting seven miles south by east of Portpatrick. The life-boat Henry Blogg, on temporary duty at...
The Life-Boat Thomas Masterman Hardy
On the closing of the Lyme Regis Life-boat Station the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy was to be returned to London, by rail from Weymouth. She left Lyme Regis for Weymouth at 8 P.M. on the 10th November. At daybreak on...