LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOV. 26TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

At 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received that there was a sick man on the Conningbeg Lightship who had to be moved immediately to hospital, and that the Irish Lights tender was unable...

During a heavy gale from the S.W. on the 4th December, the intelligence was received at Castletown that the schooner Vision, of Drogheda, had struck on a reef of rocks near Strand Hall, about two and a half miles from Castletovvn. The crew...

Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, .Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury Branch.

WE regret to announce the death of Major A. T. Fisher, who founded the Salisbury Branch in 1910, and had been its Honorary Secretary ever...

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...

Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.

" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...

Andy Keeling (right) bestows the name on the Atlantic 75 Rotoract /by pouring the traditional champagne over her bows.. - View image in PDF

One of the objects of selling life-boat souvenirs is to remind people of the service and to draw attention to its work. Recently Mr. Barrie T. Kendall, C. Eng., M.R.I.N.A., Mem. S.N.A.M.E., M.N.E.C. Inst., A.M.I.Mar E., of Waltonon- Thames,...

1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.

IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...