LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Z-BOATSto the rescue. .

Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable RFD-GQ PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being inherently buoyant,...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Patrick Power of Dunmore East.

He first joined the Dunmore East crew in 1925, became bowman in 1928 and second coxswain in 1934. He was appointed coxswain in January,...

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On the 18th December last, the brig Eliza, of Montrose, drove from her anchors in Yarmouth roads and went on shore, during a violent gale from E.S.E. and heavy sea. The Gorles-ton seamen's life-boat was immediately launched and succeeded...

On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...

AGM (IN POOLE, DUBLIN, LONDON OR PERTH) Would you like to come along to the RNLI Annual General Meeting? This year, as reported in previous editions of the magazine, it’s in a new venue. Our AGM has been held at the Barbican in London for...

CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...

Otra readers, and indeed the public in general, are aware of the complete means that exist around the shores of these islands for effecting communication with stranded and wrecked vessels, in the shape of life- boats, and the rocket and...