LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...

ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, on the 3rd Oct. last, and inflicted such distressing loss on its poor inhabitants, the following were the indications of a Kew Verified Barometer, on...

The brig Ed- wardino, of Genoa, was stranded during a terrific gale from the S. on the Northern Strand of Ballycotton Bay, on the 30th December. The life-boat St. Clair went off twice, and on the second occasion rescued the vessel's crew...

ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...

ROSSLARE HARBOUR, co. WEXFORD.— During a moderate E.S.E. gale on the 1st January signals of distress were observed at 9.30 A.M. on a schooner lying at anchor in Rosslare Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Tom and Jennie were assembled, and in a...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...

Wells' Mersey class lifeboat Don's M. Mann of Ampthill stands off outside the surf line waiting to connect a tow with the yacht Aubie.. - View image in PDF

A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...