LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dun Laoghaire September 201986:
Dun Laoghaire, September 20,1986: It was not only a D class inflatable lifeboat that was being handed over to Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station, but a boathouse as well. Sean Barrett, TD (left), Minister of State to the Taoiseach, on behalf of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS HENRY OWEN, on his retirement, after serving 15 1/2 years as Bowman, 4 1/4 years as Second Coxswain, and 13J$ years as Cox- swain of the Rhosneigir Life-boat, a Certifi- cate of Service and a Pension.
To THOMAS...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat Service During the General Strike
THE General Strike started at midnight on Monday, 3rd May, and all the regular transport by rail and road ceased at once. On Wednesday, 12th May, shortly after midday, the strike was called off, but it was not until the Saturday that normal...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December, 1956. Lives Rescued 72
OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched on service 56 times and rescued 37 lives.
TWO YACHTS ESCORTED TO MEVAGISSEY Fowey, Cornwall.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1956, the Polruan...
Category: Services
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Poole lifeboat crew to the rescue!Poole lifeboat coxswain Steve Vince and his crew travelled the short distance from the lifeboat station to headquarters to draw the winning tickets of the 69th national lottery which took place on Sunday 30...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
HARRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of the Edinburgh,...
Category: Awards
An Airbed
Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...
The French Barque Duc d' Aumale
On the 17th July, during a moderate N.N.W. gale and rough sea, information was received that a barque was ashore on the Kentish Knock Sands, with a flag signal flying, which could not be distinguished on account of the rain. The No. 2 Life-...