LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

We’re very sorry, but at the time of going to print, we were having technical difficulties with gathering the list of launches. This means we are unable to print the list in the usual way this time. We’re very sorry for any inconvenience.<...

Photograph by courtesy c/ t EI1JOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always...

At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at Bermuda had ex- pired. The Brighstone Grange life-boat...

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October a messenger arrived on horseback at Moelfre from Eed Wharf, a distance of about four miles, stating that a fishing-boat, with three men on board, was caught in a violent storm, and that the...

Mr. Edmund J. Bluett, who died on llth January last, was Honorary Secre- tary of the Scilly Islands Branch for thirty-six years. He was appointed in May, 1882, and retired in September, 1918. During those thirty-six years the Life-boats...

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most generous...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1939, information was received that two boys in a disabled small rowing boat were being carried out to sea, having broken a rowlock.

The motor life-boat William and Clara...

ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...