LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
I had little chance
Brian O’Carroll and his sister Kate were sailing a dinghy off County Wicklow when they capsized. Here, in Brian's own words, is their story.
We were making good speed towards Mizen Head and had intended to round it and...
Category: Articles
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
Carol Sandra
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
Listings
Naming ceremoniesNorah Cadman at Blackpool The D class lifeboat was kindly provided by the generous bequest of Mrs Norah Cadman, in memory of the late Norah and Harry Cadman.
Colonel Alan Niekirk, member of the RNLI...
Category: Articles
The Institution's President In Malaya
WHEN the Institution's President, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, returned from her visit to Malaya at the begin- ning of December 1952, the Institu- tion sent to her the following telegram, signed by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.,...
Category: Correspondence
Joan
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that the sailing dinghy Joan, with two men and a boy on board, had capsized a hundred yards north-east of the...
Star of Peace
RAMSGATE.—On the 29th March, during strong gale from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the barge Star of Peace, of London, was observed in a dangerous position riding at anchor in Pegwell Bay, all her sails having been blown away. The...
Junior Members of Wicklow Sailing Club Helped By Patrick Keogh Coxswain of Wicklow Lifeboat Organised a 24-Hour Sponsored Sail Last August Which Raised £520 T
Junior members of Wicklow Sailing Club, helped by Patrick Keogh, coxswain of Wicklow lifeboat, organised a 24-hour sponsored sail last August which raised £520. The money was donated to Wicklow branch funds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Towing Lines. a Discussion
Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...
Category: Articles