LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Presented by President Cosgrave.

THE awards made by the Institution for the gallant efforts to discover the survivors of the Welsh trawler Cardigan Castle, which struck the rocks and sank in Clifden Bay, Connemara, on the...

Small boat swamped ON MONDAY EVENING, AugUSt 18, 1975, the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Whitby Coastguard that a small boat which they had had under observation had been swamped a quarter of a mile to seaward...

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is animal portraiture at its finest. Rich with warmth and realism. By Nigel Hemming, named 1995 "Artist of the Year" by the prestigious Fine Art Trade 3uild. His portraits of...

Disabled fishing boat TORBAY LIFEBOAT Princess Alexandra of Kent, a 52' Barnett class built in 1958, slipped her moorings at 1950 onDecember 16, 1973, in response to mayday call received by Berry Head Coastguard from the Norwegian vessel...

Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.

On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...

At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore

‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...

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FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...