LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Sarah
Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights reported that the father of the fog signalman on the Black- water lightvessel had died in Wexford and asked if the...
The Life-Boat's Crew
WHEN raging seas the bark assail, And hope recedes before the gale, Who follow in the storm's fierce trail? The Life-boat's crew.
Who shrink not from destruction's throes, Nor quail before the dreadful blows,...
Category: Poetry
The Ship’s Boat Dronze
OCTOBER 21ST. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At about 11 A.M. the harbour master was informed by telephone that a ship’s boat, the Dronze, of Howth, had left Howth at 9 P.M. the previous evening to go to Sutton, four miles...
The Fund Raisers
Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Paperchase
The wreck Paperchase with a gaping hole in the starboard side. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Thistle and Mizpah
Two fish- ing-boats named the Thistle and Mizpah were overtaken when at sea on the 3rd May by a strong gale from S.S.E.
As considerable anxiety was felt for their safety the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched....
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain George Lamey, of Clovelly. He has been an officer of the life-boat for eighteen years, and coxswain for the past twelve years. In 1944 he was awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the west coast of Ireland. He has been cox- swain since October, 1928, and is one of the seven coxswains who won the gold medal for conspicuous gallantry during the war of...
Category: Articles
The Rock Lightvessel
The Cox- swain was informed at 5.50 P.M. on the 15th November that the Barrels Rock Light-vessel had fired a rocket, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat John Dunn was launched in a strong S.E. breeze with a rough sea. She found that the...