LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alcina
Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted close to the Owers lightvessel. There was a fresh south-westerly wind with a rough sea, and the...
Clara
The Covent Garden Life-boat was also launched at 2.15 A.M. on the 17th December, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. She found the brig Clara, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to the Tyne with a...
Leader
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, a man telephoned the coxswain to say that he had seen red flares out to sea.
The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a very rough sea with a strong...
Pern
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.7 on the evening of the 22nd October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Pern, of Aberdeen, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was driving ashore about three miles south-east of...
Congo
On the 1st January, at aboitt 6 P.M., during a S.
wind and misty weather, the Cresswell fishermen observed signal rockets being sent up. Two of the men ran along the beach and found a steamer on the strand firing rockets...
Mersey Class Lifeboat ON-1190 Crew
Left: Front row l-r: Padraig Rath, Sean Reilly, Noel Sharkey Middle row l-r: Ronan Faulkner, Barry Faulkner, Lisa Levins, V Gerald Sharkey • Back: James Byrne i. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tug
NOVEMBER 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
The life-boat crew were standing by at the life-boat house during an air-raid alert, and saw a tug blow up. They launched at once, but found nothing but wreckage. - Rewards, £7...
Ulster Queen
FEBRUARY 28TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor vessel Ulster Queen, of Belfast, with about 120 passengers and crew on board, had gone ashore at Maughold Head. A light, freshening,...
Casco
Also on the 22nd November, at 3 P.M., in reply to her signals of distress, this Life-boat boarded the Russian barque Caseo, of Bargo, which vessel was aground on the South Sand, it blowing hard from the N.E., with considerable sea. At the...
Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N. (Ret.)
Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N. (Ret.), died at Cromarty on 4th March, 1966.
He was a former District Inspector of Life-boats, RNLI, for the old Western and Southern Districts. He retired in 1929..
Category: Obituaries