LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Quireda
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, information was received that a yacht was in distress and dragging her anchor towards the rocks at the harbour entrance, and the motor life-boat Sarah...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a local fishing boat was overdue from the fishing grounds north of Arranmore. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out at...
A Yacht (4)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth - At i.o p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht with white sails and a red hull appeared to be in difficulties off Carlingford bar.
The life-boat George...
Boscoble
On the morning of the 28th May the coast- guard telephoned that a trawler was ashore at Snab Point. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate ground swell and a thick fog.
The life-boat crew, most of whom were...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.24 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Littlestone, tipping two people into the sea. At 4.38 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 a.m. on 2nd August, 1965, the police reported that a girl was missing on the island of Eigg. At 1.45 the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was...
The S.S. Gorsefield
AUGUST 8TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At about 3.40 A.M. the ScarletPoint, Castletown, coastguard reported a vessel aground a quarter of a mile from Castletown breakwater. A strong southerly wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a...
None
Ilfracombe, Devon-At 8.45 p.m.
on 2nd June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliffs at Tors Walk, Brandy Cove. The cliff rescue team had lowered a doctor to assist him. The...
Bryan Gerrard,
Bryan Gerrard, who served the RNLI first as a boat mechanic then as fleet staff coxswain/mechanic. Mr Gerrard worked for the Institution for 27 years..
Category: Obituaries
Bonnie Lass
THURSO, — Flare lights were burnt by the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, bound for Castle Hill, in ballast, which was riding in Scrabster Eoadstead, during a violent gate from the N.W., and a terrible sea on the 2nd February. The Life-boat...