LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...

DUNDALK, Co. LOUTH.—On the 19th January, the schooner Fanny Bailey, of Dundalk, bound from Troon to that port with coal and iron, stranded on the bar during a gale from S.E. and heavy sea.

The Stockport Sunday School...

WITH deep regret we announce the death on January 24 of Mrs Patricia Rickard.

Mrs Rickard (left) had worked for the RNLI since 1961, was a member of the London ladies' bridge committee and six years ago founded the...

THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...

AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.

Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He telephoned the honorary secretary immediately,...

OCTOBER 12TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 11.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel was flashing signals about two and a half miles off-shore, and later they reported that she had fired a red Very...

Ships that pass . . . from an Atlantic 21, Ambrose Greenway took this picture of an experimental 19' Zodiac Mark V, crossing the larger ILITs wash. The Zodiac Mark V has a standing steering position, to give the helmsman better height of... - View image in PDF

About 1.30 A.M. of the 23rd October, the night being stormy and peculiarly dark, the wind at east (dead on shore), the lights of a vessel on the Beacon Rocks, Eoker, to the north, of the entrance to Sunderland Harbour, were observed from the...