LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Island fire
Baltimore’s Tyne class lifeboat Hilda Jarrett was called into action on 18 March, when a fire broke out on Cape Clear Island. Fire crews from Skibbereen were needed on the island, home to around 100 people, and in an emergency the best way...
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A Small Boat (2)
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...
A Motor Launch
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— On the 10th of June, 1956, a report was received that a motor launch was in difficulties in Courtmacsherry Bay.
At 10.10 the life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Croszceller put out in a...
A Fishing Boat (1)
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH BROKEN SHAFT Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 24th April, 1962, the keeper of the Dunnet Head lighthouse informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with a broken propeller shaft was...
A French Trawler
Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.10 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a French trawler was aground at the entrance to the harbour. Ten min- utes later the trawler asked for help. The...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.49 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men, who had put out in a rowing boat to search for a body reported in the water, were in difficulties off...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Youghal, Co. Cork. At 11.20 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1960, the coxswain informed the honorary secre- tary that a small rowing boat with, two boys on board was in a dangerous position outside the harbour. The honorary secretary and...
A Motor Boat
Hartlepool, Co, Durham. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 12thSeptember, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off the Heugh break- water. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...
A Steamer (1)
27th Octo- ber. A steamer had foundered, but a trawler rescued the crew. The life- boat, which had been launched at 1.45 P.M., put into Drummore at 10 P.M., and returned to her station next morn- ing.—Rewards, £25 18*..
A Small Boat
Dover, Kent.—28th September, 1939.
A small boat had been reported as capsized six miles from Dover in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find nothing.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £1 17*. 6d..