LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gael Force
Tá na báid ar snámh san fharraige, Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir. The boats are floating on the sea, May the men come safely home.
Irish folk song
An island on western Europe’s extreme,...
Category: Articles
An Inflated Rubber Raft
MAN AND RAFT TAKEN ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.58 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on an inflated rubber raft was being blown out to sea.
A fresh...
Ian Brown,
NOVEMBER Ian Brown, former honorary treasurer of North Berwick station branch from 1971 to 1989..
Category: Obituaries
Gay Fiesta
AIDED CATAMARAN Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.50 p.m.
on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Gay Fiesta had reported that she was lost in Cardigan Bay and that a helicopter was...
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I. Presenting Ian Gillies, a 12 Year Old Boy from Gourock, With An Inscribed Wrist Watch for An Act of Exceptional Gallantry
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, president of the R.N.L.I., presenting Ian Gillies, a 12 year old boy from Gourock, with an inscribed wrist watch for an act of exceptional gallantry- The occasion of the presentation was the annual meeting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
San Blas
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.50 on the morning of the 12th of September, 1959, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the motor vessel San Blas of Stockholm was ill and needed medical...
Ian Ventham,
Ian Ventham, former head of fundraising and marketing. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Man the Life-Boat."
THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
Category: Poetry
Alethea and the Southern Cross
Howth, Co. Dublin.—During a vacht race on the evening of the 26th of May, 1954, the 5-ton yacht Alethea was dismasted off Portmarnock Strand about two miles from Howth. The yacht Ann Gail wirelessed a distress call for her to Portpatrick...