LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...

The BT Global Challenge got off to a somewhat choppy start in Southampton on 29 September 1996.

Toshiba Wave Warrior can be seen in the centre of the above photograph accompanied by Calshot's Brede class lifeboat,... - View image in PDF

It was a dark and stormy night...

The Invergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was launched just before midnight on 10 May 2002, following reports that two craft were overdue at Golspie, in winds of Force 5-6. Contact was...

Mechanics down tools to pick winners Lifeboatmen attending a five-day mechanical and engineering course in Poole took time out of their busy schedule to draw the winning tickets for the Autumn lifeboat lottery in...

JAN. 19TH -. GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At about 3.30 P.M. a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for...

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 6th August, 1941, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued the crew of twenty-three of the S.S. Aberhill, of Methil.

COXSWAIN CHARLES A. JOHNSON was awarded the silver...

In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...

Storms and Wild Water

By Dag Pike
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn

This well-illustrated book brings storms at
sea to life.

Have you ever wondered how storms...