LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Venturess
RED FLARE At 10.35 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary's wife informed the honorary secretary that she had seen a red flare in the direction of the bay. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at ii o'clock in a...
Clogher Head
Left to right:' The Ven. Archdeacon T. R. Brunslill, Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats, Mrs. R. J. Mulcahy, General R. J. Mulcahy, Sir George Shee, the Very Rev. Canon Lyons, Mr. H. G. Solomon, District... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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JANUARY 25TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. Three children were ill with diphtheria and in danger of dying within a few hours if the medicine needed could not be brought to them. There was none on the island. A strong...
Rescue Party Rescued
Rescue party rescued Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell, a naval helicopter and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh were all involved in an incident where three fishermen were airlifted to safety from their sinking trawler Dunlin on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
On the 4th March the Rescue was launched through a heavy surf to the assistance of a ship's boat belonging to the steamer Quail, of Cork, wrecked at the back of the Isle of Wight, and succeeded in bringing safely on shore the master,...
Isabella
SKERRIES.—About 3 P.M. on the 16th April, the schooner Isabella, of Portmadoc, bound from London to Dundalk, was observed to part from her anchors and drive towards the rocks. A strong gale from the E.S.E. was blowing, and a heavy sea was...
A Motor Vessel Innesmurry
At about 7 A.M. on the 25th October a motor vessel named the Innesmurray, of Glasgow, was observed drifting north- ward flying signals of distress, and the Life-boat TheopMlws Sidney Eckalaz was launched to her assistance. It was...
Lady Theresa
Four rescued EARLY ON FRIDAY, November 12, 1982, the 17ft 6in fishing boat Lady Theresa was seen leaving Redcar and, as it was a rough morning, a watch was kept on her from the lifeboathouse. At 1213 a passer by informed Coxswain David...
Guiding Star
WHITBURN.—The Life-boat William and Charles was launched at 11.30 p.m.
on the 1st June and landed a man from the coble Guiding Star. Whilst he was out attending to his crab-pots, a heavy sea rose and he was in considerable...
Success II, Faith Star, Pilot Me and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the 31st of January, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat saw that bad weather was making the conditions at the harbour bar and harbour entrance dangerous, and at 11.25 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...