Injured seaman THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station was asked at 1600 on Tuesday October 14, 1980, if an injured seaman could be taken off the Norwegian bulk carrier Blix. A rendezvous was arranged for midnight in Dublin...
From a drawing made after the service by Acting Coxswain Harry Barrett, who was awarded the bronze medal. (See page 203.).
Category: Drawings
Thursday, 23rd August, 1934.
Paid £18,054 10s. 5d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, includ- ing rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
This is not the start of the tall ships race but the excitement and competition felt at the start of the Pimlico Boat Race was comparable with it. Thirty-six 'boats' took part, each with a sponsored crew of four who raced their way... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
THIS is a true story, although the name of the life-boat station is not men- tioned. In one of the heavy gales of last winter one of the motor life-boats on the South Coast put out on service shortly after dusk and was out the whole...
Category: Articles
BARGE'S CREW RESCUED IN HEAVY SEAS Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 15th December, 1962, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen about one mile north-west of the coastguard station, and at 6.58 the...
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
Category: Services
THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...
Category: Obituaries
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head lightvessel, and ascertained that she had been run...