LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A GUN is heard at the dead of night " Life-boat ready 1" And every man to the signal true Fights for place in the eager crew ; " Now, lads, steady!" First a glance at the shuddering foam, Now a look at the loving home,...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...

THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...

OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.

They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...

NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.

Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...

Canoes caught out WHILE ON EXERCISE, on Saturday May 15, Beaumaris ILB Blue Peter II learned, at 1350, that a group of 20 canoeists from the Nelson Outdoor Pursuit Centre at Llanfair were out in the Menai Straits opposite Moel-y-Don and had...

Together we build a better engine.

Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barrus Ltd for over 20 years.

These engines have been specially...

MARCH 21ST. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.

At 4.3 in the afternoon a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a vessel was sinking five miles north-east of Eddystone, as the result of enemy action.

A...