LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1956, the harbour master received a message from the motor vessel Centurity of London, which had anchored in the harbour because of bad weather, that her crew...

Riverdance came home to Dublin's Gaiety theatre this Summer, and the world-famous aquatic-themed troupe has been supporting the RNLI.

On 1 June, 15 of the show’s dancers ran the Dublin mini marathon, putting in some...

THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....

With deep regret we record the following deaths: August 1995 Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Clark CM GM, Former national organiser for RNLI in Ireland from 1967 to 1982.

September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland...

THE following account of how visitors from Bolton contributed to the funds of the Fleetwood Branch, appeared in the Bolton Journal and Guardian on 12th July.

" A number of Boltonians on holiday at Fleetwood last week...

Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, fourteen local fishing cobles put out from Filey. The wind got up suddenly, and at 7.15 a whole S. gale was blowing, with arough sea and torrential rain....

The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was...

Poole, Dorset. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Chloe had left Wareham for Sandbanks at 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August and had not arrived....