LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Riding tandem: a round-the-island ride on a tandem
Riding tandem: A round-lhe-island ride on a tandem was part of the three-day Randonee festival of cycling on the Isle of Wight. A team of Henley enthusiasts pedalled the 62 miles in stints of five miles each, checking in at various points... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
BEFOHK the middle of October the Institution's life-boats had already rescued more lives this year than they rescued in the whole of 1956, although 19,56 was the busiest year the service had ever known in time of peace.
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Committee
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 8.—The Dover Life-Boat for the Help of Aeroplanes
AT Dover is stationed the only motor life-boat of this type, specially designed for the special conditions of the Straits, across which there is not only the heavy passenger steamer traffic, but a con- siderable daily traffic by aeroplanes,...
Category: Articles
An Open Fishing Boat
Six fishermen saved by crew member in open fishing boatEamonn O'Leary, a member of Dun Laoghaire's All-weather lifeboat crew, has been awarded the Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum for a rescue which he carried out...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1955 79,860 Notes of the Quarter THE first good summer which Britain and...
Category: Articles
An R.A.F. Tornado
Thanks, but no thanks for Barry Dock! Barry Dock lifeboat crew were faced with an unusual situation on 12 September this year, when one of two survivors they had located refused the offer of a lift to safety on the lifeboat! Within 10...
An Inland School and the Life-Boats
THE District Organizing Secretary in the Midlands recently visited the school at Alderwasley, in Derbyshire, to present a certificate won by a pupil of the school in this year's essay competition ; it is a remote village of a few hundred...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (22)
MARCH 25TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 1.42 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that an explosion, apparently from an aeroplane which had crashed into the sea, had been heard at a coast-watching post at...
The Conningbeg Lightship
NOV. 26TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received that there was a sick man on the Conningbeg Lightship who had to be moved immediately to hospital, and that the Irish Lights tender was unable...