LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 28TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; ILFRACOMBE, DEVON ; LYNMOUTH, DEVON ; AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. A large steamer had caught fire and had sunk after an explosion, but the crew were rescued by patrol vessels. - Rewards : Barry Dock,...

At 5.15 P.M. on the 5th December a pilot boat with three men on board put out in response to what was thought to be a signal for a pilot. The weather was very thick, with a moderate easterly breeze. The three men found a yacht, the Glen Cora...

Line dancers from Quin in the Republic of Ireland, donned lifeboat clobber and strutted their stuff in July to raise cash for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF

All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...

WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...

THURSDAY., 1st Jan., 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., F.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the. Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck and Reward...

November Meeting.

Cape Clear, Co. Cork.—On 24th • September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o'clock in the afternoon. They came from the s.s.

Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden...

Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....