LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Exmouth lifeboat volunteers received a Mersey class lifeboat in May as a replacement for their Trent. Although another all-weather lifeboat, the Margaret Jean’s shallower draught proved more suited to the location when, on 8 May, she...

Last spring the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum at Green- wich, and the Museum's director, Mr.

Frank Carr, decided to arrange a special life-boat and life-saving exhibition.

To the...

AT 7.15 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat station, Mr. Kieran O'Driscoll, was informed by Valentia Radio that the motor trawler Ros Airgead was aground on White...

THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...

NORTH WEST DISTRICT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 6.40 p.m. on 3oth May, 1967, it was learned that a boy, who had fallen off the Great Orme, would have to be taken off by boat as it would be very difficult to haul him up the cliff face....

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 50 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1934 63,721 A Stormy Passage.

By COMMANDER J. M. UPTON,...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...