LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...

THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...

Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).

DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...

JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.

There was a thick fog, but the sea was...

MR. CLAUDE M. HART, secretary of the station at The Lizard, Cornwall, retired at the end of last September after serving for 39 years. He had then passed his 79th year. He brought to his work for the Life-boat Service a great love of the sea...

Concerted efforts Worcester guild has a particular talent for turning musical notes into pound notes. In May 1984 a concert given by Scottish baritone, Peter Morrison, in conjunction with the Hereford Police Choir, raised £362.25, while...

A flare for rescue in darknessWalmer lifeboat crew proved they are ready for anything 24/7 when they were paged at 2 o'clock one morning in mid-winter. The lives of two yachtsmen depended on the crew being wide awake and alert throughout...

On 14 May 2007, yachtsman and powerboater Geoff Holt was leaving the Hamble river in Hampshire in his aptly named trimaran Freethinker. After months of planning, he had begun the public phase of climbing his ‘personal Everest’ – being the...