LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 18th July the Life-boats stationed at Hilbre Island and Hoylake visited New Brighton to take part in a demonstration which had been organized at that place in aid of the " Life-boat Saturday Fund." In order that the...

Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...

SEPTEMBER 28TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

Lights, which might have been from an airman baled out from an aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £15 17s. 6d..

For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.

Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...

Notes of the Quarter by the Editor .. .. .. .. .. 2 Profiles 4 Life-saving on the Shannon by M. Duffy .. .. .. .. 6 Letters 8 Royal Blue to the Rescue .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 Plymouth Exhibition .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 The RNLI looks at the...

South West Division Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were...

• Grahame Farr, one of the honorary archivists of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, is a true historian and whenever he publishes a paper containing the results of his research he makes available a new and valuable chapter to all those...

Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...