LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—27th July. A fire was seen at sea, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £22 12s. 6d..

DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An Admiralty tug was in difficulties, but she was taken in tow by a minesweeper. - Rewards, £5 12s..

A stitch in time...

could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...

At 2.30 A.M. on the 22nd November the Coastguard reported that a steamer had grounded on the beach and was making signals of distress. The Coxswain, John Swan, therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell. On...

At 10.40 a.m. on llth June, 1969, information was received that a fishing vessel was in difficulties at Loop head, County Clare. The lifeboat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings at 10.50. The tide was flooding. At 4.15 the life-boat came up...

XII.—GROOMSPORT.

The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...

A Magnificent Group of Services.

19th~21st November, 1916.

SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...

By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.

THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.

Many'encounter...