LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Galway's Arun uses inflatable to snatch skin divers to safety from surfCoxswain Padraig Dillane and Crew Members Seamus Flaherty and Mairtin Fitzpatrick of the Galway Bay lifeboat have been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National...

Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.

Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...

When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard

Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...

Honorary Life-Governor.

The following have been appointed HONOR- ARY LIFE-GOVERNORS of the Institu- tion and have been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...

Contents Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 42 Easter SaiJing by Giles .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 43 XLI11 Modern Lifeboat Equipment 44 Number 445 . Profiles 48 Price 15p Central Appeals Committee .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 Chairman: Shoreline Section...

THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...

Lifeboat crews will always be ready to rescue when the call for help comes in. But with commercial fishing one of the most dangerous peacetime occupations, how can the RNLI help our fishermen to improve their chances before help arrives?<...

DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...