LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Our lifesavers received a remarkable gift in May – two multi-million-pound Ferraris. Northampton businessman and RNLI supporter Richard Colton left his treasured sports cars to the RNLI in his Will, asking that money from their sale be used...

The Medical Recording Service and Sound Library, Kitts Croft, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, has produced a recording on 'How to enjoy the sea while staying alive'. It deals with simple safety precautions, runs for 33 minutes, and has...

The 50ft Thames lifeboat, like May's Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit, is designed with a substantial watertight deckhouse to give her a righting capability. On her righting trials, once the strop is released she comes upright, shaking off... - View image in PDF

SINCE HER INTRODUCTION to the RNLI fleet in 1971, the Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat has not only proved her worth on service, but has also shown herself to be a thoroughbred among boats.

With her speed, range,...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...

EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...

PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Car- narvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...

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