LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pride of Leinster and M. E. Johnson
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen north of Arklow harbour. At 9.9 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was choppy, with a...
Book Reviews
• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.
The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1897
THE RIGHT Hon. G. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, rs THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. a.
J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty.
Seconded by Sir COURTENAY BOYLE...
Category: Meetings
John HarrisonChairman of the Shoreham Appeal Committee Holds the Cheque for £7000 Presented to the Appeal By the 3Rd Battalion the Queens Regiment at A
John Harrison,chairman of the Shoreham appeal committee, holds the cheque for £7,000 presented to the appeal by the 3rd Battalion The Queens Regiment at a ceremony held at the station's boathouse. (Photo Beckett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heart and soul
In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...
Category: Articles
Leaf from Lloyd's List
AN interesting tabular return has just been published in Lloyd's List of the casualties to shipping, reported to Lloyd's during, the month of January last. They are thus classified : vessels totally wrecked, 145; part of cargo saved,...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Barra Island.
Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...
Category: Articles
In This Issue
Feature: Safety at the seaside Safer beaches through national signage Feature: Come together The RNLI's 2004 ACM and presentation of awards Feature: Lifeboat Lottery Lifeboats and Lifeguards in action Including real-life rescue accounts...
Category: Contents
Run Up to Christmas 2005 Photos
On Sunday 27 November, hundreds of runners, young and old, fit and not so fit, gathered i Moors Valley Country Park in Dorset to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Three rescued THE WARDEN of Burnham Overy Yacht Club, Peter Beck, was told at 1100 on Thursday April 17, 1980, that someone was shouting for help in Overy Staithe Harbour. Mr Beck, who is also an auxiliary coastguard,...
Category: Services