LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Filey, Yorkshire.—On the 25th March the local fishing cobles Dorothy Rose, John and Nancy, Topmast and Sybil Joyce put to sea. 'At 9.45 A.M. a moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and dense fog, and the cobles were in some...

AN exercise of the life-boat at Barra Island was held in November, 1951, during a visit to the island of the Bishop of Argyll and Isles. This was his first trip in a life-boat.

The bishop had been very anxious to make it,...

THE Bronze Medal has been awarded to Thomas Boyle, of Seafield, Quilty, Co.

Clare, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to two other men for their gallantry in rescuing three men who had lost their boat and were marooned on...

RUNSWICK.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N.E., with a heavy sea,on the 5th November, the schooner Jane and Ellen, of and for Whitby, from Seaham, with a cargo of coal, lost her sails and became unmanageable. She showed signals of...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.

It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...

AVAILABLE in a special memorial issue is the late Minnie Mitchelson Goodall's bright humane story, "Tales Told by a Squirrel", the royalties of which go to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Ideal for young folk, the...

Commander Alphonsus J. O'B. Twohig, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A. died on 3ist July, 1967, at the age of 73. From February, 1951, to February, 1961, Commander Twohig was honourary treasurer of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I. He was...

Unflagging support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (r) hand a cheque for £225 to Falmouth harbour master and lifeboat honorary secretary, Captain David Banks.

Their Platinum II Roadshow had raised the money... - View image in PDF