LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On the night of the 29th August the Berry Head coastguard was informed by a boy that three people were marooned on Cradle Rock, St. Mary's Bay. Dark- ness was setting in, and as no boat could be seen, the life-boat station was informed....
Thrift
While the local fishing fleet were at sea on the 2nd November the weather broke, and a strong south breeze sprang up, with a rough sea. All boats except the Thrift got safely in, and the motor life- boat L. P. & St. Helen was launched at...
Rosealean
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November, 1935, fishermen saw the local fishing coble Rosealean, about, a mile south of Arklow, showing signals of distress. A strong east breeze was blowing, with a rough...
The Kish Lightship
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—The motor life-boat Dunleary -was launched at 3.45 A.M. on the 19th March in answer to distress sigpals from the Kish lightship in Dublin Bay. A moderate to fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
A Small Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.20 P.M. on 19th August, the Deal coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin light-vessel had reported a small boat, about one mile E.S.E. of the light-vessel, in urgent need of help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
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FLOATS MISTAKEN FOR MEN Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford.—At 9.40 in the morning of the 21st of October, 1947, information was received that what appeared to be a partly sub- merged boat with three men clinging to it had been seen in...
The Queen's Forts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a man, a diver of the Admiralty, working on the dis- mantling of the Queen's Forts, one and a...
The S.S. St. Kenneth
STRANDED ON THE BREAKWATER Holyhead, Anglesey.—A minute be- fore midnight on the night of the 31st of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. St. Kenneth, of Dublin, anchored off the breakwater, was drag- ging her anchors...
Croix du Sud
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and...
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Penlee, Cornwall. — At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1948, the Porthleven coastguard telephoned that a man was in the sea, shouting for help, eight hundred yards east of Porthleven pier. The motor life-boat W. and...