LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Mumbles: IN MEMORY OF TIM
In October, more than 50 people met at The Mumbles Lifeboat Station to raise money in memory of RNLI supporter Tim Mahoney, who sadly passed away last year.
Tim loved cycling and completed a Ride to the Somme charity bike ride...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Drifter Supporter
NOVEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 9.10 at night information was received from the naval officer-in-charge that the Admiralty drifter Supporter, employed as a hospital carrier, was getting into difficulties off the...
The S.S. Tartar
MAY 9 T H . - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. The S.S. Tartar, of Sligo, had stopped off Dunmore for examination.
She had not dropped anchor, but drifted to the S.W. round the headland. She was kept under observation, and was...
The S.S. Fort Enterprise
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.13 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1951, the S.S. Fort Enterprise, of London, bound for America from Liverpool, wirelessed that she had a sick steward. She asked for him to be landed, saying that she would be...
The S.S. Trsat
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8.57 P.M. the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported that a vessel was being attacked by aeroplanes several miles to the N.E. of the head. She was the S.S. Trsat, of Cardiff (late of Jugoslavia),...
After the War.
It must not be thought that because receipts exeeeded expenditure, by over £100,000 the Institution is getting more money than it needs. That £100,000 would in a normal year have all been spent in building new boats, and, if the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Bencroy
An excep- tionally severe gale was experienced on all coasts of the United Kingdom on the 22nd February, and about 12.40 P.M.
the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Bencroy...
The Perils of London Streets
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Category: Photographs
Feature New Kids on the Block
The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...
Category: Articles
The "Charterhouse" Life-Boat
IN 1909, one of the first of the Insti- tution's Motor Life-boats was stationed at Fishguard. She was a 40-feet Self- righting Life-boat with a 24 h.p. auxiliary engine, giving her a speed of seven knots.
There were...
Category: Inaugurations