LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three overboard FOLLOWING reports of three men overboard from a motor boat off Bangor Harbour, Belfast Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Bangor lifeboat station at 1849 on July 21, 1987 and the station's D class inflatable...

On the night of the 30th March the Parsee life-boat went off during a fresh wind from N.N.W. and rough weather, and saved the crew of 6 men from the schooner La Prudence, of Algiers, which was totally wrecked on Palling Beach..

At daybreak on the 20th. November the Life-boat Richard and Sarah was instrumental in saving two fishing smacks and their crews of 4 men each. These vessels were, prior to the arrival of the Life-boat, most critically situated, owing...

RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY. — The barque Hjemlos, of and for Grimstadt, from Belfast in ballast, was observed about three miles S.W. of Bhoscolyn, apparently unmanageable, during a moderate gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea, on the 18th December....

ST. ANDREW'S, N.B.—On the 24lh October, during a N.E. gale and a heavy sea, the schooner Louise, of Frederickstadt, bound thence to Newcastle with barrel staves, drovd ashore on the West Sands and became a total wreck. The Ladies'...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—8th August, 1938. Rockets had been reported, but no vessel in distress could be found.

Owing to the eagerness of the launchers the life-boat carriage damaged the iron railing on the foreshore and a...

St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 19th of November, 1949, the life-boat rescued three from the ketch Hanna, of Poole.

Rewards, bronze medal and £24 12*.

(A full account of this service will be published in...

IN 1950 the Institution held over 900 flag days. The number of people who gave was 6,100,000 and the sum given was £84,877. The number who gave was 400,000 fewer than in 1949, but the sum given was £1,271 more..