LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

After a fishing boat capsized in seconds just outside Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford, two volunteer crew members had to improvise if they were to respond in time …

Coxswain Eamonn O’Rourke...

In celebration of the € Oth Anniversary of Dunkirk: Each plaie measures 6 '/« x 8 'A inches (15.8120.9 cm) Hardwood plate display measures appro*. 25 '/2 x 8 '/2 inches 'Endeavour' THE SPIRIT OF DUNKIRK An...

THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their tenth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 1st August, when the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch. By collecting this year over...

IN the year 1852 this Institution adopted a new description of life-boat: many of the boats which it at that time possessed were worn out, and the result of the-competition for a prize offered in the previous year by His Grace the Duke of...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the dredger Delta had engine trouble and was in danger of drifting on to the revetment wall a mile and a half north of...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...

OCT. 20TH. -GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At 2.40 A.M.

the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St. Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also fired signals. A...

Its Expenditure at a Glance How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1951 £ s. d.

28 7 6 _ _______ New Construction.

38 8 10 ____ _M_ Maintenance of...