LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Deeds of Covenant Thanks to the members who signed the deed of covenant in the Autumn 1993 issue of THE LIFEBOAT a total of 998 new covenants were received, resulting in an extra income of £5,600pa. If you missed the opportunity to...

The Institution has now completed the full history of the services of life-boats during the war of 1939-45. This has been prepared for purposes of his- torical record and is not for general distribution. The story of the Life-boat Service in...

FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE. About 7.30 in the morning of the 26th of April, 1943, a dinghy belonging to the R.A.F. Rescue Service (Maintenance and Repair) Unit, with seven men on board, capsized in deep water between 20 and 30 yards from the...

APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...

PORTMADOC.—On the morning of the 9th of December, 1854, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W. at the time, two large threemasted vessels were observed from Portmadoc to be on shore on the St. Patrick's Causeway, a dangerous shoal of several...

COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Ballycotton, Co. Cork Baltimore, Co. Cork Bar mouth,...

AT the personal request of the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Sutherland has accepted the Presidency of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in succession to the Marchioness of Carisbrooke, and she inaugurated her Presidency by issuing an...