LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 12.10 p.m.
on 20th July, 1969, Valentia radio told the honorary secretary that the tanker Point Law had reported that a number of people were waving flags and flashing lights on the Great Blasket...
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Swanage, Dorset -At 5.2 p.m. on 26th March, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen at the base of the Old Harry rocks.
The life-boat R.L.P. launched at 5.14 in a gale force westerly...
Donalda
APRIL 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the morning it was reported that a vessel of an outward-bound convoy had gone ashore on the Binks. She appeared to be on her beam ends and was sounding distress signals on her...
An American Tank Landing Craft
OCTOBER 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Late in the afternoon an American tank landing craft, manned by about a dozen British naval men, had got into difficulties off the Chesil Beach in a heavy south-west gale, with a very rough...
A Ship’s Boat
JANUARY 3RD. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.49 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported red flares east-by-north about four miles distant. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and squalls of rain and sleet. The motor life-boat Charles...
Gratitude for the Service to the "Rohilla"
IT is just eleven years since the service to the Hospital Ship Rohilla, wrecked ofi Whitby on 30th October, 1914. It will be remembered how the Whitby No. 2 Boat, although badly damaged, made two journeys to the wreck, rescuing five women...
Category: Donations
Strathrye (1)
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
Bronze Medals Presented In Ireland
Bronze medals awarded by the RNLI to Mr. Patrick O'Connor of Meenogahane and Sergeant William McCarthy, neither in the regular service of the Institution, were presented together with miniatures and vellums at a happy gathering in Adare...
Category: Medals
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 12th June, 1890.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bait., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee