LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.

—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.

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Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...

THK Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was ordered to be launched...

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'1974 —A YEAR OF TRIUMPH' — His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President RNLITHE WORD WHICH SEEMS to have been most readily used by people describing the RNLI's annual general meeting in 1975 was 'moving'. On page 30 we...

On the 15th Sep- tember, the screw-steamer, Hettenis, of Dublin, bound from Naples and Lisbon to Dublin, with a general cargo, and having 26 bullocks on deck, grounded on Ark- low Bank, during a strong gale from W. to W.S.W. The Arklow...

Birthday Honours The following were honoured by HM The Queen in her Birthday Honours list for their services to the Institution: MBE: David Cargill. Mechanic at Arbroath lifeboat station from 1973 to February 1995, having joined the crew in...

EARL HOWE, the former chairman of the Committee of Management, has been appointed honorary chairman for life of the Institution. This appoint- ment brings to an end an active period of work on behalf of the life-boat service extending over...