LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Birkbeck Birthday Readers might be interested to hear that the lifeboat Edward Birkbeck, shown above on Deganwy beach, is rapidly approaching her 100th birthday and still in regular use.

The hull is an improved Norfolk and...

Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics

Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...

The Life-boat Rochdale, in answer to signals of distress shown from the schooner Hawk, of Chep- stow, was, with considerable difficulty and persistent efforts, launched to her assist- ance on the morning of Sunday, the 2nd Feb., and having...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 3.10 P.M. on the 21st November, 1938, news was received from Quarff Post Office that a young man had gone out fishing in a small rowing boat in the forenoon and had not returned. A moderate...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 8 A.M. On the 27th April, 1939, a telephone message was received from the Fishery Bailiff asking for help for a fishing boat which was at sea off Weybourne three miles away. A strong, increasing N.E.

Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....

ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was...

TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields life-boat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...