LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOLYHEAD.—At G.30 A.M., on the 24th January, the Thomas Fielden Life-boat proceeded in tow of the steam-tug Royal Saxon to the assistance of the steamer Carleon, of Cardiff, which had dragged her anchor and stranded in Holyhead Bay during a...

Photograph by courtesy c/ t EI1JOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always...

At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...

The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...

THE Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution records with regret the deaths of the following coxswains in the past year: Richard Henry Hayes of Poole.

Owen Jones of Porthdinllaen.

Isaac Jarvis of Hope...

Summer 2009 winners

1st prize: Peugeot 107 Urban 3-door hatchback, Mr D Lowman, London (pictured on his VIP visit to Tower lifeboat station)

2nd prize: 13-night cruise onboard Balmoral to the Canary...

On the 10th Aug. the tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur, in a strong wind and heavy sea, saved 10 men from the ship Dunmail, of Liverpool, I which was wrecked on the Bar of the ' Mersey..

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, informa- tion was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...