LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...

Raymond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, presented PR awards to (I.) Dr William Guild and (r.) Coxswain Derek Scott. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of David Parker. - View image in PDF

. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...

THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...

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TROPHIES RACE...

In former numbers of this journal we published a series of papers on "Lights and Lighthouses," to which an account of this the last of our great outlying light- towers will be an appropriate sequel.

As a preamble...

1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour clearly shows hazardous rocks. Improvements to harbour works, running out from Douglas Head and St Mary's Rock, proposed by Sir William Hillary, are hatched.

by courtesy of the Manx...

The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...