LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (20)
FEBRUARY 1 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but it was found by an R.A.F.
rescue launch. - Rewards, £21 13s. 6d..
The S.S. Ennismore
MONTBOSK.—On the 26th September the wind, which had been blowing from the S.S.E., towards the afternoon increased to a gale, with a heavy sea and much rain.
At about 6.45 a steamer was seen attempting to run for the harbour...
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
The Destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1953, the destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar arrived off St.
Helier, anchored one mile south-south- west of Elizabeth Castle and landed one hundred and fifty libertymen.<...
New Officers of the Scarborough Life-Boat
Second Coxswain William Sheader, Coxswain Tom Mainprize and Bowman Thomas Rowley (see page 10). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Boats St. Anne and Cymba, of Kilmore Quay
OCTOBER 11TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
During the morning, while several fishing boats were out, a strong wind sprang up, and by 12.30 in the afternoon it was blowing a gale from the north, with squalls, a rough sea, and...
The Passenger Vessel Purbeck Gem
Two lifeboats help in evacuation of 114 from stranded passenger vesselBoth of Poole's lifeboats were called on to help with the evacuation of 114 passengers from a passenger vessel which ran aground in darkness and thick fog on the night...
The Troopship S.S. Archangel
MAY 17TH . - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 1.18 A.M. the naval authorities at Rosyth asked, through the Fraserburgh coastguard, that the Fraserburgh life-boat should he got ready to launch. A few minutes later the station was...
The Union Castle Line Steamer Rothesay Castle
JANUARY 5TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.50 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that an S.O.S. had been sent out by the Union Castle Line steamer Rothesay Castle. She was a vessel of over 7,000 tons and bound from New York to...
The S.S. Joseph Mitchell
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.45 on the night of the 8th of February, 1950, the S.S. Joseph Mitchell, of London, loaded with coal for Cork, was seen to be very close to the shore about one and a half miles south-west-by-west of Ballycotton. At...