Coastguards of Yesteryear - Articles

Obituary WR BUIKE 1901

The bearer party consisted of Chief Boatmen Goddard and Tee, Commissioned Boatmen Giles and B. Hudson, and Boatman Stone, and the pall bearers were Chief Officers Petty (Bembridge) and Tubbs (Sandown) and two Chief Officers of the Cowes division.

John Vincent Rohu

Notes on diary kept by John Vincent Rohu during his service in the Crimean War.

J.V.�s Service Record shows that he was Coastguard til 5th. March 1854. He joined Price Regent on 6th. March 1854, transferred to the Royal Albert on 23rd. November, was discharged from the Royal Albert on 20th. August 1856 and resumed Coastguard duties that same day.

Moville School, Co. Donegal

This file contains the names of children at school in Moville, Co. Donegal. This is the school mentioned in the article on Bernard Wheyman.
All of the children are either Established Church, Presbyterian or Methodist...

The Coastguard Cutter Vol 7 No10

Oct 2009:
In 1838 William Darling, the Longstone Lighthouse keeper, and his daughter Grace, rescued four men and a woman from the "Forfarshire" wrecked near the Lighthouse....

The Coastguard Cutter Vol 7 No9

Sep 09:
As in all walks of life, then as now, the Coastguard could find life too unbearable with tragic consequences.

The Coastguard Cutter Vol 7 No8

Aug 2009:
Many of the Coastguard stations were attacked and burnt down between 1920 and 1922. In a number of cases no serious damage was done.

Frederick Ashby, Coastguard

My great-grandfather Frederick Ashby (1851-1943), left a hand-written memoir covering 20 years of his service as a Coastguard. This included service in various North Devon Stations, 4 years at Rosslare (Co. Wexford) and a spell in Great Yarmouth (Norfolk). The memoir gives a fascinating taste of his duties, training and experiences in the Coastguard Service

Attack on Coastguard Station at Kilbehagh, Kilrush, Co. Clare

The Times
London, Middlesex, England
July 19, 1867

The Limerick Reporter, 29 November 1839

Captain Teephook, of H. M. Cruiser Hamilton, stationed at Kilrush

Dreadful Accident at Derry

The Evening Herald. Tuesday 30 August 1892

Derry Monday.

The boating fatality on Lough Swilly

A verdict of accidental drowning was today returned at the inquest on the bodies of coastguardsmen Richard Tibbles and William John Stowers, natives of Plymouth and Kent respectively, who were....

The Desperate Plight of the Atlas

At 7 a.m. on November 25th 1880 the Austrian barque �Atlas� of 400 tons, loaded with maize, and on it�s way from New York to Papenburg, was driven onto the infamous rocks at Atherfield Ledge .....

The Coastguard Cutter Vol7 No7

Jul 2009:
The coasts of Co.Antrim and Co.Down are no strangers to gales and shipwrecks.

The Coastguard Cutter Vol7 No6

Jun 2009:
Like all large organisations worldwide, the Admiralty had a list of Priorities. In certain cases they were Economical ones.

Another Coastguard V.C.

The Victoria Cross
Awarded to Men of Portsmouth
- Edward Robinson VC -

The Coastguard goes to War. 1854

When the Crimean War broke out in 1854, the country was, as usual, totally unprepared for a struggle with the colossal might of Imperial Russia, and the value of the Coastguard as a naval reserve was clearly shown. Every man who was available was drafted to the fleet. During the war 3,000 men were drafted to the Fleet.

The Coastguard Cutter Vol7 No5

May 2009:
A Coastguard or a Lighthouse Keeper will always have a woman in the home to help when things go horribly wrong.

The Coastguard Cutter Vol7 No4

Apr 2009:
Differences of opinion did arise from time to time between the Coastguard service and the men of the R.N.L.I. as this Drogheda call-out showed.

A Coastguards Daughter�s Story. 1875

A daughter of one of Her Majesty�s Coast Guard Officers, now the only surviving child, asks us to tell her mothers story....

Mr. Boate

Expenses incurred in 1827 by Mr. Boate for a journey from Waterford to Dundalk for himself, family and servants = �21.6.91/2

Coastguard auction 1882

Commander Dickenson, Royal Navy, who is removing to Sell Unreservedly, By Auction at his residence, COASTGUARD STATION DUNDALK, on Wedensday 7th June 1882, Commencing at Eleven o'clock sharp, His Entire FURNITURE AND EFFECTS.