LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria (2)
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
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Swanage, Dorset. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the Swanage ambulance station that a man had fallen down the cliffs near Ballard Point. At 2.41 the life- boat R.L.P. was...
Braemar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 22nd/23rd May, 1967, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched to the assistance of the yacht Braemar. A full account of this service will appear in the December number of the journal..
Pater
ARKLOW.—On the 30th March it was reported by the master of a fishing smack that a barque had grounded on the Arklow Bank. The Out-Pensioner Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and found she was the barque Pater, of Sundswall, Sweden,...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 240, 255 and 274, the following launches on service were made during the months of June to August, 1966, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
Bluebell, of Wick
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 1.40 a.m. on 22nd June, 1967, the fishing vessel Bluebell of Wick was reported ashore on Seal Skerry, South of Gairsay. The lifeboat The John Gellanty Hyndman slipped her moorings at 2.10 in a moderate south westerly...
Doctor Sydney Peace
APRIL 1990: Doctor Sydney Peace, station honorary secretary at Longhope from 1957 to 1962 and honorary medical advisor from 1962 to 1963.
Mr Peace was also honorary medical advisor at Kirkwall from 1972 to 1984. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Mary
On the afternoon of the 21st May the motor boat May Belle got into difficulties oft Littlestone.
Her engine had broken down, and she began to drift. She was making her first trip with her owner and five other men on board....
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Category: Advertisement
Lady Sophia
THREE TAKEN OFF At 9.30 a.m. on i6th August, 19645 Dublin harbour office told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty south of Pigeon House. There was a fresh south-easterly wind with a choppy sea and an ebbing tide. At 9.53...