LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE National Safety Week Council, on which the Institution is represented, is arranging to hold its second Safety Week from llth May to 16th May next.

The object of the Week is to arouse the public to the need of additional...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 4th February several fishing-boats being in danger, the sea having risen very rapidly, the Life-boat John and Janet put off to their assistance and stood by them until they got into safety. Two of...

TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.

The Memorial Life-boat put off...

PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES.—At about 9.30 A.M. on the 6th November, signals of distress were shown by the screw flat Llysfaen, of Liverpool, during a N. gale and a heavy sea. The George Moore Life-boat put off to her assistance, and was...

At 10.10 P.M.

on the llth January the Coastguard reported that two of the fishing-boats belonging to Arklow were off Courtown Harbour in need of assistance owin"' to the whole N.E. gale causing a very heavy sea,...

Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver...

As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...

MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...