LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harbour Rescue In Darkness
COXSWAIN/MECHANIC Eric T. Offer, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution for a shore boat service in which he rescued two men who got into difficulties at night in the harbour.
At...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (13)
APRIL 28TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 2s..
None (4)
4th No- vember. Rockets were reported to have been seen, but no vessel in distress could be found.—Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..
Lifeboat Swimmers
• The Flamborough lifeboat swimming club was formed about a year ago as a result of three crew members wishing to qualify as official swimmers on our lifeboat. We found it was easier and cheaper to take the Royal Life Saving Society's...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Runcorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
Category: Services
A Hundred Years Ago
AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...
Category: Articles
Cite d'Aleth (1)
Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla (1)
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
Out on a shout
What do you understand by the term ‘shout’ in lifeboating? Is it simply the launch or the entire rescue mission? Is it derived literally from the call to action and who used it first – volunteeers or the mass media? Searching the newly...
Category: Articles
Ben Blanche
Mumbles, Glamorganshire, and Tenby , Pembrokeshire.—Some time after mid- night on the 18th-19th December the steamer Ben Blanche, of Ramsey, ran on the rocks to the west of Port Eynon Head. She was bqund from Dundoon, in Northern Ireland, to...