LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fire on the water THE GARDAI telephoned Howth honorary secretary at 2325 on Monday, June 9, to say a patrol car at Malahide had reported what appeared to be something burning at sea off the High Rock between Portmarnock and...
Attempted Rescue By Second Coxswain
Shortly after 4 p.m. on 12th September, 1967, Mr R. W. S. Gould, who is second coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat, was working in his cafe on the beach at Bembridge when his attention was called to a bather in difficulties some 200 yards...
Category: Services
Maggie (1)
Newhaven and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, fishermen reported to the Newhaven life-boat station that the fishing smack Maggie, of Shoreham, was long overdue. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
Union
At 7 P.M. on the 29th October the •watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the Middle Binks. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Union, of Portsmouth. She was...
Staniel (1)
Aldeburgh, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the Lowestoft honorary secretary that the motor vessel Staniel of Cardiff, which was making for Lowestoft...
A Dinghy (3)
MAN TAKEN OFF MOORING BUOY Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.5 on the night of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with a man on board was drifting across Holyhead harbour.
On...
Navigator
About 8 P.M. on the llth January, the Coastguard reported that there was a vessel on the Splaugh rock, and the Life-boat Tom and Jennie was promptly despatched to her assistance. After a heavy beat against wind and tide the Life-boat found...
A Motor Boat (2)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.28 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1957, the wife of the Chief Justice of Ireland telephoned the coxswain to say a small motor boat was on fire east of Carnsore Point. At 5.48 the life-boat Douglas...
Quest and Dennis
AUGUST 11TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the morning a message was sent to the coxswain that the weather was very bad and that several fishing cobles were out. He went to the station and found that most of the fishing boats...
Albion
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 26th October, 1939, the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon.
She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of...