LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

C&vJte Ckapt MARINE A U X I LI AR IES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat Many other winches of similar design...

TWO LIFE-BOATS IN NIGHT SEARCH Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys.

At 8.17 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the motor mechanic informed the Stromness honorary secretary that the family of a man who had gone out in the...

Sharon Kirwan and Elizabeth Lynch are pictured presenting a cheque to Paddy Hodgins, honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station for the' sponsored launch' of the lifeboat.

The money was raised by students... - View image in PDF

Earlier this year the Louth branch of the Vintners Federation of Ireland broke all records by raising £6,100 for the Clougher Head lifeboat at its annual ball.

The money was collected through a raffle and auction,... - View image in PDF

St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, from the reserve fleet, doing tem- porary duty at the station, put out in search of an aeroplane, but found nothing and returned to her...

Sail board in trouble AT 1553 on Wednesday, November 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Aberystwyth lifeboat station was informed by Milford Haven coastguard that a board sailor was in trouble just outside the mouth of Aberystwyth...

FOOD TO A SNOW-BOUND TOWN St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—Bv the 8th of March, 1947, the roads to St.

David's had been impassable for three days owing to heavy falls of snow, and food was getting short there. A...

ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...