LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1863. THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meetings, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
John Green
DROGHEDA, IRELAND.—The schooner John Green, of this port, bound there with coal from Ardrossan, was entering the river Boyne on the llth February, while the wind was blowing hard from the E.N.E., and a very heavy sea...
Students rowers swamped
Crosshaven lifeboat, the B class Miss Betty, was out on exercise on 6 December when it happened upon an overcrowded dinghy at Lough Mahon.
It was the UCC Rowing Club safety boat, struggling in rough conditions with a...
Category: Articles
Oak Leaves
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.20 on the evening of the llth of November, 1959, the coxswain received a message from a Wexford fish merchant that the fishing boat Oak Leaves had not returned to Wexford. When last seen near Blackwater...
St. Joseph
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.35 in the afternoon on the 4th of November, 1949, a fishing vessel at the north end of the bay was seen to be flying a distress signal. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 3.42 in a rough...
Mary Bridget, of Wexford
APRIL 13TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 7.10 in the morning a message was received from the owner of the fishing boat Mary Bridget, of Wexford, that she was missing. She had a crew of three.
A southerly wind was...
Onward
AUGUST 31ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At about midnight the life-boat watchman saw a red flare, and on making enquiries of incoming boats he found that the motor fishing boat Onward, of Rosslare Harbour, which had been fishing at...
Albert Haines,
March 1996 Albert Haines, ex-coxswain of Dungeness lifeboat. Albert's service with the Institution began in 1941 as a crew member of Dungeness lifeboat, becoming bowman in 1947. In 1965 he was appointed second coxswain with promotion to...
Category: Obituaries
Endeavour Award
Robert Charlton, son of Llandudno crew member Keith, recently won the Welsh region under 18s Nationwide Award for Voluntary Endeavour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Young Bert
At 7.30 on the morning of the 6th January a vessel was observed on the West Barnard Sand with a signal of distress flying.
Information was given to the Coxswain and the No. 1 Life-boat Bolton was smartly launched. On...