LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of July. 1955.

the Civic Guard at Dalkey reported that a private aircraft with a crew of two had crashed in Killiney Bay. At 3.48 the life-boat Dunleary II put...

Ox the afternoon of the 18th January the steam trawler Ben Screel, of Aber- deen, with a crew of ten on board, went ashore on the rocks opposite the Girdle- ness Lighthouse, near Aberdeen. A strong south-easterly wind was blowing with a...

Mrs Vera Morris, wife of the senior partner in Sinclair Roche and Temperley, the firm of solicitors which funded the new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat, christens her Eft's Sinclair after the founder of the firm at a ceremony held at... - View image in PDF

As the Lifeboat went to print, the rescue reports coming in from our lifeboat stations and lifeguard units showed 2013 is set to be one of the busiest Summers on record. People flocked to the coast during the sunny days of July, which was...

Three saved after 11 hour service to yachtcromer lifeboat 2nd Coxswain Billy Davies received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for saving the lives of three crew and their yacht after an eleven hour 1/etU *.

On the morning of the 2nd May a pilot reported to the coxswain that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a signal flag, and a life-boatman went to Westgate to find out the nature of the signal. He telephoned that it was a distress signal,...

THE honorary secretary of the Minehead branch writes: "You may be interested to know that a friend of mine—the licensee of a small hotel in a remote spot on Exmoor—assisted by local shepherds, last September organised some sheep- dog...

IN 1932 the number of Branches which held Life-boat Days was 713, an increase of 27 on the previous year. Each year there has been a steady increase, and there were nearly 100 more Days in 1932 than in 1929.

Though the...