LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three saved as trawler is destroyedThe coastline west of Port Oriel, on the east coast of Ireland, is extremely wild, with treacherous rocks to catch out the unwary sailor. So when the Clogher Head lifeboat was called out to a fishing...

As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...

Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF

DECEMBER 21ST. - SWANAGE, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 10.27 in the morning the Swanage coastguard telephoned that the naval officer in charge at Poole wished the Swanage life-boat to go to the help of an escort vessel which had capsized three...

AN interesting tabular return has just been published in Lloyd's List of the casualties to shipping, reported to Lloyd's during, the month of January last. They are thus classified : vessels totally wrecked, 145; part of cargo saved,...

Let this uplifting melody inspire you Inscribed inside the lid is a message that lasts a lifetime for a daughter mother sister friend gratiddaugh ter grandmother 7 Sculptural porcelain butterfly with shimmering gold accents graces the lid...

A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.

She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...

LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.

Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...