LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (10)
OCTOBER 27TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. A steamer had been reported on the horizon apparently sinking, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £29 0s. 6d..
A Steamer (26)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A steamer was reported to have been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £40 5s..
A Fishing Boat (10)
DECEMBER 5TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. The engines of a fishing boat had broken down, but she was able to get in without help. - Rewards, £17 6s. 9d..
Gladys Too
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 1.35 on 29th May, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was reported in difficulties off Towyn beach. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at two...
A Jaguar Class Yacht
On the beach During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.
Rye's C class inflatable...
The Screw Steamer Hellenis of Dublin
On the 15th Sep- tember, the screw-steamer, Hettenis, of Dublin, bound from Naples and Lisbon to Dublin, with a general cargo, and having 26 bullocks on deck, grounded on Ark- low Bank, during a strong gale from W. to W.S.W. The Arklow...
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
A Launching Accident
ON 10th June the motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of-Man, was launched on exercise at low 'water. The life- boat and carriage had been lowered down the slipway to the limit of the wire, and chocks had been placed under the wheels,...
Category: Articles
A Trawler (6)
DECEMBER 28TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. A small steamer had been reported drifting in need of help, but the life-boat found that she was a trawler at anchor, and that what had been thought to be a red flag on her fore stay, as a signal...