LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, it was reported that the fishing boat Ocean Pearl, which had a crew of five, was in difficulties between one and two miles off Holborn Head. At 11.45 the life-boat...

Tá na báid ar snámh san fharraige, Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir. The boats are floating on the sea, May the men come safely home.
Irish folk song

An island on western Europe’s extreme,...

Jenny and Paul Jobling became the first couple to celebrate their wedding at the Lifeboat College on Saturday 17 October.

The college has been granted a licence to hold marriage and civil partnership ceremonies, and can...

Dunbar, East Lothian. At 9.53 a.m.

on loth January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yawl approximately half a mile off North Berwick Point had capsized and seemed to have disappeared. At 10.8 the...

IN the article on the Centenary Life- boat Essay Competition in the last issue, it was stated that none of the schools which had won the Challenge Shields had held them before. This was in-correct. The St. Paul's School, Netley Bridge,...

On the evening of the 24th April a telephone message was received from the coast- guard that a barge was anchored off Platters reef with her sprit-sail blown away, and was flying a distress signal.

A motor boat had...

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Pull out RNLI AGM and APA An invitation to all supporters It has been another busy year for the RNLI. Supporters can re? ect on the events of 2007 at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Annual Presentation of Awards (APA) at the...