LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...

This Spring saw the official reopening of the RNLI Grace Darling museum in Northumberland, after years of redevelopment. Was it worth the wait? Carol Waterkeyn pays a visit to find out

In 1938, a museum opened in Bamburgh...

YOUHGHAL, IRELAND.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...

Books First of the flood By Fred Normandale Published by Bottom End Publishing ISBN 0954368606 Price £11.75 paperback Now Lifeboat Operations Manager at Scarborough, Fred Normandale grew up as part of the fishing community in the...

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 3rd January the coastguards reported that a three-masted steamer was at anchor, S.W. of Trevose Lighthouse, flying the Italian ensign half-mast high.

The Life-boat Willie Eogers was...

Walk Around Chanty BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CKAUFURD, R.N., Honorary Secretary of the Dungeness Life-boat Station.

" We were much relieved, when dawn broke, to see our boat beating home in the offing. As there had been no...

Anchor Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" She therefore stood by the vessel until dawn."—Honorary Secretary's...

THE Institution has replaced the pulling and sailing life-boat at St. Helier, Jersey, this year with a motor life-boat of the light Liverpool type, described on page 392. The new boat has been built out of a gift of £3,250 from...