LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth, and Howth, Co. Dublin.—2nd January. A steamer was in difficulties but made port with- out help.—Rewards, Clogher Head, £12 16s., Howth, £11 7s. Sd..
A Boat (1)
24th February.
Two men in a boat were seen to be in difficulties, but managed to get ashore when their boat grounded.—Rewards, £18 15s. Qd..
A Motor Punt
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At eleven in the morning of the 13th of March, 1952, a man left Cork for Ballycotton in a motor punt. He had not arrived by eight o'clock that night. The keepers of the Power Head Lighthouse, eight miles west of...
A Fishing Boat (1)
29th Octo- ber. A fishing boat was in distress, with her engine broken down, but she got ashore without help.—Rewards, £27 15*..
A Steam Drifter
20th December.
A steam drifter was in difficulties with her engine broken down, but another drifter took her in tow.—Rewards, £7 12s..
A Steamer (1)
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford — 12th February. A steamer had been reported to be in distress, but she got help from another steamer.—Rewards, £12 15s..
A Fishing Boat (3)
Barra Island, Hebrides.—18th December.
Anxiety had been felt for a Northbay fishing boat, but she got in safely—Rewards, £10 6s. 3d..
A Motor Boat
Overdue THE RELIEF 46ft 9in WATSON LIFEBOAT Sarah Townsend Porritt, on temporary duty at Howth, slipped her moorings and put to sea at 2230 on Sunday October 15, 1978 following a report that a red flashing light and red flares had been...
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork - At 11.15 p.m.
on ist April, 1966, a fisherman informed the honorary secretary that a salmon yawl was in difficulties off Youghal. As the weather was bad the life-boat J. B.
Couper of...
A Dinghy and Mambo
TWO CASUALTIES At 6.52 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting one mile south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at...