LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Island Aruns: Naming Ceremonies at Port St.Mary Isle of Man July 21 and Yarmouth Isle of Wight July 24
A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
Gay Toucan
Selsey, Sussex - At 10.34 a.m. on 8th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser was aground on Kirk Arrow shoal, half a mile south of Selsey Bill. It was hoped she would refloat unassisted but at...
Gang Warily
Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...
Ban Righ
.— Dur- ing the morning of the 26th February the wind freshened into a N.W. gale with a moderate sea. About 6.30 a message was received from the Coast- guard that a schooner was ashore at Scotston Head, and the crew of the Life-boat George...
Man the Life-Boat!
" Man the Life-boat!" Listen, brother, How the signal cleaves the air, Chilling heart of wife or mother With a feeling nigh despair; "Man the Life-boat 1" and the thunder Seems to echo back the cry; "Dare they...
Category: Poetry
Estelle and Finola
Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour later...
The Greek Brig San Spridione, of Galaxide
On the night of the 16th February, the Greek brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide, coal laden, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a south gale. As she made no signals of distress, her dangerous position ^was not seen from the shore until...
Three Men Jump from a Fishing Vessel
AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For tlie Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1875.
A tice, cu tter, of Yarmon th—as-...
Category: Advertisement
Coinin Ban
Family rescue An unusual family rescue began on 11 July 1991 when James Tyrrell, the brother of Arklow's second coxswain and who is also the station's honorary secretary set sail with another friend in his 18ft sailing dinghy Coinin...