LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LONG NIGHT SEARCH Hastings, Sussex. At 7 p.m. on 9th February, 1964, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that an angling dinghy was overdue, and it was decided to launch the life-boat. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a...

A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...

A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.

The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .

'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 8.50 p.m. on i6th February, 1966, the coastguard reported to the coxswain that the trawler Ard Adimh was adrift in Dun Laoghaire harbour and in danger of breaking up on the rocks by the west pier. As the...

Capsized dinghy TWO MEN visiting Tenby by yacht on Sunday September 28, 1980, were returning by dinghy from shore to their yacht in the late evening when their dinghy capsized. One man managed to cling to a rock but the other, who could not...

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The Duchess of Kent and the three Irishmen (See page 164). - View image in PDF

IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...