LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

proudly rules the waves.

And honour's justly due To those who guard the Union Jack,— Our tars so staunch and true; But now a peaceful lay we sing, And glory, too, to boast Of those who rescue lives so dear From wrecks...

Naming and dedication Ceremonies rlOWth - Arun class Hibernia The naming ceremony of the RNLI's new relief 52ft Arun class lifeboat was held on Saturday 16 September at Howth Harbour.

Mrs Maureen Haughey named the new...

'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...

MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.17 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone ashore at Path Head, and at 10.40 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched. The' sea was calm...

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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on theafternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the schooner Lora, of East Mersea, had had some of her sails carried away and was drifting east-by-south of Clacton Pier. At 3.2...

When a fisherman fell into a fast ebbing tide, who would hear his cries for help – and what could be done to save him?

After a morning’s shrimp fishing on 29 October 2013, one of Achill’s...