LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....

Naval Architect dies Naval Architect Jack Tyrrell of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland died suddenly on 29 July 1988 at the age of 83.

Jack Tyrrell was one of Ireland's most imaginative naval architects, and in 1964 won...

DURING 1936 life-boat flag days were held by 766 of the 1,071 branches of the Institution; nine fewer than in 1935. The amount collected on these days was £42,715, which was £375 less than in 1935. The number of people who...

DURING March life-boats went out on service 26 times and rescued 4 lives.

REFLOATING A STEAMER Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara...

THE War, the greatest in which a nation has ever been involved, has entirely absorbed public interest, and the purses which have been so generously opened to the innumerable appeals in connexion with the War have, almost of necessity, been...

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

Incorporated by Royal Charter Founded 1824. SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS, PATRONESS HER HOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

VICE-PATRON HIS ROYAL...

THE new Aberdeen life-boat Hilton Briggs, of the 52-feet Barnett (Strom- ness) type, which left the building yard at Cowes on the 17th of August of last year, broke her journey by sea to her station, to travel up the River Trent from Hull...

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.') FOUNDED in 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...