LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Irish Willow, the S.S. Empire Breeze
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire Breeze, which had been torpedoed in mid-Atlantic on...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 1,550 times, saving 686 lives.
In 1985 lifeboats launched 3,882 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,744 lives (an average of over...
Category: Articles
Lady of Portnablagh
Shortly before Sam on Saturday, 10 March, both Lough Swilly lifeboats were called to rescue a burning fishing vessel. Mulroy Coastguard also launched and rescued the skipper, who had abandoned the burning vessel and was in a liferaft. He was...
Brawn teams fund new London lifeboat
Formula One mastermind Ross Brawn has inspired teams from some of London’s leading companies to raise £360,000 in just 8 months, most of which will be used to fund a new E class lifeboat for the River Thames.
The...
Category: Articles
Rescue from Swedish Vessel Near Cliffs
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 26th cf December, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lerwick, Shetland Isles, life-boat station, Mr. P. Bruce Laurenson, learnt from the coastguard that the Swedish motor vessel Samba was drifting 122 miles...
Category: Services
Wicklow
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.
Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fred Olsen Lines
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Category: Advertisement
Coxswain Fred Walkington
Coxswain Fred Walkington 'A neavy contact between the boats could have been disastrous.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Water Gipsy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.27 in the afternoon, on the 17th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, making heavy weather, had lowered her sail and hoisted a flag. So, at 12. .5 the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was launched in...