LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—A life-boat station in connection with the National Life-boat Institution has been founded at Arklow, on the East Coast of Ireland and a life-boat on Mr. Peake's design, 30-feet long, and rowing 10 oars, double banked,...

JAN. 2ND. - SCARBOROUGII, YORKSHIRE.

Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather. A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The Eagle came in and reported that the boats...

The following letter, extracts of which are published here, was received in September, 1968, from Raymond Baxter, formerly Director of Motoring Publicity, The British Motor Corporation Ltd., and well-known television com- mentator, enclosing...

Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...

10th November. A sailing boat with twenty men and women on board, mostly agricultural workers returning from the Scottish potato harvest, put off from Burtonport for Arran Island at about 6 P.M. on the 9th November. There was a moderate but...

your shout Dear Editor, My wife and I were privileged recently to spend a day visiting RNLI Headquarters at Poole. Every aspect that we saw or heard made us deeply proud of the Lifeboat service and full of admiration both for the people and...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: May 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 15 and May 26 (four times) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21 :Mait:h29, 31 (fourtimes), April 12, 20, 24. May 4 (twice) and 25 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Cclass...

FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.

Southwold, Suffolk. At...