LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Naval Architect dies Naval Architect Jack Tyrrell of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland died suddenly on 29 July 1988 at the age of 83.

Jack Tyrrell was one of Ireland's most imaginative naval architects, and in 1964 won...

Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...

G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o r m F o r c e Positive Reactions There's an old saying: 'It only takes one spark to start a fire.' Well, the spark in this case was the Spring issue'spiece 'Moving with the...

On the 21st April, at 4 P.M., the Lifeboat was launched in a strong S.S.W.

wind and a heavy sea, and remained out three hours, rendering assistance to fishing- boats which had been overtaken by the storm..

HOWTH, co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 succeeded in saving the ketch Ocean Pearl, of Wexford, and her crew of three hands on the 13th February. Shortly after 10 A.M. a message was received telephone that a vessel was drifting...

DURING the past year the Institution has lost many who have done distinguished service as members of Life-boat Crews or who have given it long and generous help as honorary workers. The Life-boat Service is very much poorer by their...

The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...

On. the 16th October another gale was experienced, and at 2.30 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the schooners Catherine Latham and Sir Robert, which were anchored in Moelfre Bay. Their crews, numbering in all seven men, were taken into...