LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A southerly gale was blowing, the sea was rough, and all the local fishing boats had put back to harbour except two, the motor fishing boats Winifred, of Wexford, and Onward, of Rosslare. Each...

I stepped down as Chairman of the RNLI at the end of September – but I could not do so without taking the opportunity to thank you

As ever, you’ll find stories showing the remarkable courage and selflessness of our...

Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...

It may have been a fairly straightforward service but there were some interesting sidelines. In the words of Captain Cowell, the station's honorary secretary at Douglas in the Isle of Man: 'At 1055 on Sunday 1 June the lifeboat,...

PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...

PENZANCE.—On the 10th March while a whole gale was blowing from the E.

with snow and a heavy ground sea, the schooner Joseph Nicholson, of Newcastle, bound from Carnarvon for Norway with slate, dragged her anchors while...

GREAT YARMOUTH. — The Life-boat John Surch was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd January, and put on board the s.s. Ardle, of Dundee, some men by whose aid the vessel, which had been stranded on the beach about two months, was got afloat, and...

The Grosvenor Circle, a newly formed drama group of the headquarters staff of the R.N.L.I., staged their first production, Short Story, by Robert Morley, at the Abbey Community Centre Theatre, London, S.W.I, on 15th March, 1968.