LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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WOMAN RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF Howth, Co. Dublin. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 15th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman had fallen over a cliff, a few hundred yards south of the Martello tower,...
Two Scottish Lifeboats Capsize and Right
ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Carrickfergus, co. ANTRIM. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat station at Carrickfergus, on Belfast Lough, it being considered most important, in view of the great shipping...
Category: Articles
Favonian
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Favonian, of Belfast, which had a crew of four, was burning a flare a quarter of a mile north of Peel breakwater....
A Dinghy (3)
Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.45 a.m. on lyth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that cries for help had been heard near Ringstead beach, four miles east of Weymouth. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke went out at 3 o'clock on an ebbing tide...
Gay Fiesta
AIDED CATAMARAN Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.50 p.m.
on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Gay Fiesta had reported that she was lost in Cardigan Bay and that a helicopter was...
Swiftsure, of Fraserburgh
Life-boat 70-002 at Ullapool - At 6 a.m. on ist February, 1967, a fisherman told the coxswain that a fishing boat had struck a rock in the vicinity of Gruisard Bay and was being towed towards Ullapool.
Although the crew...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Richard Price The first Atlantic 75, Susan Peacock, shows her paces in the Solent before going to Poole for Open Days in July, She was accompanied by the first Atlantic 21, brought out of retirement for the event, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emerald Isle
LYTHAM. — On the 22 nd September, during a 8. gale with thick rain squalls, a vessel was observed ashore on Salthouse Bank, and showing signals of distress.
The Life-boat was launched, and on arriving alongside found that...
Oceanic
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.27 A.M. on the 16th September, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the Brake Light-vessel had reported that the barge Oceanic, which was near her, had a man on board dangerously ill, and that the skipper wanted to get...