LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
At 9 a.m. on 8th November, 1965, the Inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick keeper on the Tusker Rock lighthouse and requested that he be taken off....
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AUGUST 31ST. - BALTIMORE, CO CORK. An explosion had been heard and a flare seen, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £11 16s..
Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
Category: Articles
Rugged In the Extreme Caithness Lifeboat Stations: Thurso and Wick By Joan Davies
In winter, on ten to fifteen days out of every month, winds will blow at force 7 or above around the north-eastern tip of Scotland. The waters of the Pentland and Moray Firths are some of the most notorious in the world. The mainland...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains
TIIK following awards were made to Coxswains during November and De- cember, 1920, and January, 1921 :-- To JAMES CHISHOLM, on his retirement after serving 28 years as Coxswain, and, previous to that, for 5 years as Second Coxswain of the St...
Category: Awards
Weston-Super-Mare: the Cave on the South Side of Brean Down from Which Three Trapped Boys Were Rescued on November 12; on That Day a Full Southerly Gale Was B
Weston-super-Mare: The cave on the south side of Brean Down from which three trapped boys were rescued on November 12; on that day a full southerly gale was blowing and there was a rough sea with breaking surf. For this service the thanks of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fine Service By the New Thurso Life-Boat
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
Category: Services
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JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.
A gale was blowing from the...
Category: Services
Forty-Two Men Were Saved
EARLY on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the 20,125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord, which was in ballast and bound from Liverpool to Syria, broke in two during storms of exceptional violence in the Irish Sea.
Category: Services
Letter. Let's Put Out More Flags
• I attended the London District Conference when the present financial problems of the R.N.L.I. were explained to the delegates. Subsequently the excerpt from the article - 'Why put out more flags ?' included in the last issue of THE...
Category: Correspondence