LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RUN quick, ring out the Life-boat, and quick ring out the crew, No tempest that could daunt them o'er England ever blew.

Where wood upon the water can ever float and save.

The boatmen of Britannia...

The thirtieth year of He/ensburgh ladies' guild was celebrated with some successful fund raising. £500 was made at a coffee morning run by Mrs Joan Robertson; a curry supper at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club brought in... - View image in PDF

Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.

—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.

A S.S.E....

Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...

[The following article appeared in the Lytham St. Annes Express on the 12th of March. It is reproduced by kind permission of the editor.] COULD you do what Lytham life-boat- men do when they are called out on an emergency? Could you...

N EWS P O I N T There coutd only be one topic for Newspoint in this issue - the remarkable service by the Lerwick lifeboat to Green Lily, which led to the award of the first Gold Medal for 16 years to her coxswain and a further five Bronze...