LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 11TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning the police telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the Cable Hut, Ballyvester, Donaghadee.

The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 1.15. A...

LXVII. BRIGHTON.— The Robert Bailees, 32 feet by 7} feet, 10 oars.

IT is not our intention here to enter into a description of so well known a town as Brighton, which has been so happily described as "London by the...

WITH the exception of Liverpool no Station Branch contributes so much each year to the Institution's revenue as Eastbourne. With a population of over 60,000 inhabitants, and a large number Instituof summer visitors, it has opportunities...

Anglers in danger HAVING BEEN informed by the Seaham Coastguard, Co. Durham, at 1632 on Sunday, November 11, 1973, that a number of anglers had been cut off on the drum head at the end of the north pier of the harbour, and that they were in...

A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...

Among the many movements to which the philanthropic spirit of the age has given birth, few are entitled to a larger share of public sympathy and support than such as have for their object the well-being and im- provement of those classes...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At half past three in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1948, the coastguard re- ported that the Portpatrick Radio Station had signalled that the tug Warrior, of Glasgow, about three miles east-north-east of Ramsey...

The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...