LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.

gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...

THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...

Very early on the morning of the 4th January, a vessel was seen on the Dogger Bank, off this coast, on which a rough sea was then breaking.

As soon as possible the smaller of the two Life-boats on this station, the Civil...

(9)—Les Wall at the oyster sheds. He retired from the life-boat service in 1959 at the age of 58. On the life-boat he was signalman. Joined in 1947.. - View image in PDF

• The Sea, Thine Enemy by Captain Kenneth Langmaid, D.S.C., R.N. (Jarrolds, 355.) is in fact a comprehensive survey of coastal lights and life-boat service.

This is undoubtedly a book which may be read with profit and...

The Wreck of the Trawler Jeanne. - View image in PDF

A Tale of the Life-Boat Service Ned Ellis A Life-Boatman of Lowestoft. - View image in PDF

THE DEATH of Captain Nigel Dixon was a serious and sudden loss to the RNLI.

He became Secretary of the Institution.

a t i t l e which was later altered to that of Director, at a difficult time in 1970. Not...