LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1957, the Irish Lights Office asked if the lifeboat could launch to land the master of the Arklow lightvessel, whose wife was dangerously ill. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was...
The Admiralty Trawler Kirkella
OCT. 20TH. -GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At 2.40 A.M.
the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St. Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also fired signals. A...
The Barrels Lightvessel
PATIENT TRANSFERRED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.10 a.m.
on 14th October, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the use of the life-boat to transfer a sick man from the Barrels lightvessel. The sea was smooth and it was two...
The Anchor Liner California
Aranmore and Greencastle, co. Donegal.
—The Anchor liner California, of Glas- gow—a vessel of nearly 9,000 tons register—stranded on the N.W. point of Tory Island, during a dense fog, on the evening of 28th June. She was...
The Sea Belle
About 5 P.M.
on the 20th July a small yawl was observed close to the Goodwin Sands in j a very dangerous position apparently j not under proper control, arid griping \ towards the sand. Within a short time it...
Cycles at the Ready:
Cycles at the ready: I to r, postman, Mr Semple, Jim Berry, Walton and Frinton lifeboat mechanic, Keith Richardson, assistant mechanic, Coxswain Dennis Finch and chairman of the ladies' guild, Mrs Robertson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ralph Glister Award
Police Sergeant D. H. Carter and Police Constable A. E. Farley, of Bourne- mouth, have each received £5 under the terms of the Ralph Glister Award in recognition of their service in the Bournemouth IRB on 19th May, 1968, to a burning...
Category: Awards
The Life-Saving Crew
THE storm rages fierce, the billows roll high, Now lashing the shore and then kissing the sky, 'Mid wild supplication of agonized prayer, Whilst cries ring the air, now from lips in despair - Hark I the life-saving crew, The life-saving...
Category: Poetry
The Finnish Steamer Otava
On the 8th June the Finnish steamer Otava, of Helsingfors, ran aground in a thick fog at Tunstall, about twenty miles south of Bridlington. She was bound for Hull with a cargo of timber, and carried a crew of sixteen. A moderate N.E....
The Sailing Boat Taw
Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.57 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat had capsized off Combe Martin. At 5.23 the life- boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a...