LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lock Garve
Immediately after returning from another call on the night of the 1st November the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was dispatched to the assistance of another vessel which was in distress on the south part of the Brake Sands. A...
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in August were Carried out by the Following Stations
Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...
Category: Services
Pictured at the Presentation of the Red Cross Awards
Pictured at the presentation of the Red Cross awards are (from left to right) David Wyatt of the British Red Cross Society), Staff Officer General Duties Richard Perks, John Burke-Gaffney (Director General of the British Red Cross Society)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The South Rock Lightvessel
SICK MAN BROUGHT ASHORE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of January 4th, 1947, the South Rock Light-vessel was seen to be firing distress signals. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was moderate. The motor life...
The Men Who Man the Life-Boat
WHEN a shrieking, thund'rous tempest Breaks the stillness of the night, And a ship in seething waters Wages impotential fight; As the life-croft to the rescue, Gallant oarsmen speed afloat— Do we realise the perils Of the men who man the...
Category: Poetry
The Liner Kungsholm
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 2.10 on the morning of the 27th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the liner Kungsholm of Gothenburg, which was on passage to Sweden from the United States of America, would be off...
The Danish Brigantine Andreas
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Danish brigantine Andreas, on her passage from Dunkirk to the Tyne, in ballast, ran ashore on Roker Rocks, North Blyth, during thick weather, at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 15th December. . The No. 2...
Question In the House
In the House of Commons on llth December, 1967, there was a written question put by Mr. Edward Rowlands, M.P. for Cardiff North, on the R.N.L.L Mr. Rowlands asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he would take steps to provide a...
Category: Articles
The Steam Life-Boat Inspected By the Prince of Wales and the German Emperor
IT will be remembered that in September, 1890, the Steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was stationed at Harwich for the purpose of experiment. There she gained golden opinions from her crew.
Between September, 1890, and...
Category: Articles
Oriel, of Howth
JUNE 4TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. At 6.30 in the evening a yacht was seen endeavouring to make Howth, and the keeper of the Baily Lighthouse was asked to keep a watch on her. About nine o’clock he telephoned that the yacht was drifting to sea...