LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ORG CHESHIRE'S CHAMPION 'Jimmy' hit the roads in 1998 on a nationwide tour to raise funds for The Cancer Research Campaign. Since then, he's raised a six figure sum. With your help he'll do even...

Ice cream and face paints. Barbecues and bunting. There’s something very traditional about a lifeboat station open day, but there's also a definite 21st-century edge

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PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia...

THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...

A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...

LOWESTOFT.—On the evening of the 19th March, at about 8 o'clock, the schooner J%fcs, of Nyborg, Denmark, bound from Newcastle to Kgueira, with a cargo of coal, while riding ia the roads began to drive, aad at 9 o'clock, the coxswain...

HEMMED in on all sides by high hills, and occupying a position in the very heart of the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, itself a large centre of population engaged in the woollen and cloth trades, is situated the town of...

MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...