LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1953.

the Civic Guard at Portmagee reported that the fishing boat Ros Corr, of Dublin, with a crew of six, needed help seven miles north of Bray Head....

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SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...

Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...

Lizard AT a dinner held at the Housel Bay Hotel, the Lizard, on the 24th of April, 1959, to mark the hundredth anniver- sary of the founding of the life-boat station, Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented a...

RESCUE MAP RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland as of August 2005.

See page 42 for news of the first Tamar class lifeboat to come on station.

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Barmouth, Merionethshire.

The Institution stationed at Barmouth in 1939 a 32-feet surf motor life-boat, with Hotchkiss internal cone propellers. She is like the Poole motor life-boat described in the issue of The Life-boat...

An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...