LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR the past seventy years there has been a Life-boat Station at Aberdeen, provided and maintained, not by the Institution, but by the Aberdeen Har- bour Commissioners.

The first Boat for the Station was procured by the...

TO OUTLINE ALL the work of the Medical and Survival Committee would take too long, so the following paragraphs will contain accounts of activities selected because they are likely to be of general interest and, where necessary, explanations...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...

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The crew of Peterhead’s Tamar class lifeboat.

The Misses Robertson of Kintail, are pictured recovering a woman from the water into the Tamar’s inflatable daughter boat on 20 August.

IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Tynemouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland is pictured towing a disabled fi shing boat to her home port of North Shields on 11 August. Trudie May’s skipper made an emergency call after his salmon nets got caught...