LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THOSE who are old enough to remember the repeal of the navigation laws describe the state of feeling that prevailed among the shipowning class when the measure was carried safely through Parliament as one of absolute panic. Nothing but the...

AT 4.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Newhaven (Sussex) lifeboat station, Mr. R. K. Sayer, was told by the coastguard that the Danish auxiliary schooner Vega was making water and might need...

Inshore rescue boats of the R.N.L.I, saved 733 lives last year. This is a record number and exceeds the 696 lives saved by IRBs over the whole of 1970. Since the R.N.L.I, first introduced its IRB fleet in 1963 the number of lives saved by...

Ireland’s ‘voice of the sea’ may have stepped away from the microphone – but Tom MacSweeney is as vocal as ever when it comes to marine matters

For two decades, Tom MacSweeney’s voice has been synonymous with Ireland’s...

PADSTOW.—The Albert Edward Lifeboat put off during a strong gale from the N.W., arid a very heavy sea, and with great difficulty rescued the crew, consist- ing of four men, from the schooner Favorite, of Quimper, which had lost her sails and...

FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—On the morning of the 24th March, a whole galeblew from the N.E. with heavy squalls of sleet, and the sea was very heavy. At 9.55 signals of distress were shown by vessel at anchor in the bay, and the crew of the Life...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th of December, 1955, a doctor rang up the life-boat station to say that the keeper of St. Helen's Fort at Spithead was seriously ill. He asked if he could he taken to...

AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.

The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...