LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wicklow Visit
Frank Fahey TD. the new Irish Minister fof Marine and Natural Resources, made a special visit to Wicklow lifeboat station m March this year Minister Fahey was in Wicklow to board the new Irish Lights vessel Granuaile which later brought him... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Helens
Torbay, Devon. — During a severe N.W. gale on the morning of the 23rd January, 1939, the auxiliary ketch St.
Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour and drove ashore on the beach near the...
Mrs. L. R. Lowe, Gosfield
MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...
Category: Obituaries
Contents
A Notes of the Quarter (47 Contents Lifeboat Services 149 Vollime XT VTT Lifeboat Services, September, October and November, 1980 154 N Umber 475 Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: plated up 155 Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919,...
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A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.55 p.m. on 25th May, 1969, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.5 in a fresh east north...
Life-Boat Workers at Sandown, Isle of Wight
Life-Boat Workers at Sandown Isle of Wight. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
The following RNLI supporters, volunteers and staff have sadly passed away: Mrs Iris M Brookes MBE -fundraiser Mr Brian Caunter -Torbay lifeboat station Assistant Mechanic 1975-2001 Mr Charles R Chatterton - Horton and Port Eynon branch...
Category: Obituaries
Pygmalion
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Pygmalion, of Fleetwood, had broken down off Manghold Head and needed help.
The life-boat...
Bruces
At 8 P.M. on the 21st November the steam drifter Bruces, of Peterhead, bound from Yarmouth to Peterhead, stranded owing to hazy weather on the Beacon Rocks between the old harbour and the South Outlet. In response to her signals of distress...
A Dinghy (1)
CHILLED SURVIVORS AFTER a white flashing light had been seen off Margate, Kent, at 12.54 a.m. on 4th October, 1971, the life-boat North Foreland was launched.
After travelling a mile and a half towards the flashing light...