LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Naval Launch
SWAM TO LAUNCH At 2.40 p.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a report that a naval launch with seven people on board was in difficulties in shallow...
Beal Inse, of Dublin
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 5.15 p.m.
on 15th May, 1967, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Beal Inse of Dublin was in urgent need of assistance two miles southwest of Valentia. The...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
Lobster boat sunk THE LIGHTKEEPERS on Tory Island sent a message to the honorary secretary of Arranmore lifeboat station at 2015 on Saturday, September 17, reporting that a half-decker lobster fishing boat had gone on the rocks. The crew of...
A Dinghy (2)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY IN TOW Moclfre, Anglesey. At 11.50 on the morning of the 17th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was in distress three and a half miles south-south-east of the life-boat station,...
Eminence
AIDING THROMBOSIS PATIENT At 1.35 a.m. on 26th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Eminence bound from Sunderland to Goole wished to land a sick seaman at Whitby. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
An R.A.F. Mosquito Aeroplane (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 11.29 in the morning the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. Mosquito aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. A light east-north-east wind was...
The S.S. Marsworth
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.
She had...
St. Joseph
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At eleven o'clock on the night of the 13tn of March, 1950, the Hook Tower light- house keeper reported that a boat was making flares two miles south-west of Hook. The flares and S.O.S. signals on...
Rosemary II and Betty Sheader
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 3Gth of December, 1955, information was received from the crews of fishing boats coming in from sea that the wind was freshening and the weather worsening. There were doubts about the safety...
Ramona
NEAR PORTLAND BILL Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.30 p.m. on 9th November, 1964, the coxswain was told by a shipping agency that the Dutch motor vessel Ramona was drifting in choppy seas and a moderate south-easterly wind five miles south of...