LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.

ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...

SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...

ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.

The first of two tremendous seas, a...

0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.

Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...

DURING THE NIGHT of Monday August 13 and Tuesday August 14 southwesterly storm force winds, veering to west north west and gusting to hurricane force, struck the south-western approaches while the international Fastnet Race fleet of 306...

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has achieved its latest fundraising target of £150,000.

The money will be used to fund a new Atlantic 85 lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, due on service in 2011. It was raised through passenger...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire May 24.

Abersoch. Gwynedd April 13, 18 and May 30.

Aberystwyth, Dyfed May 5.

Arran, Buteshire April 25 (twice).

Atlantic College, South Glamorgan...

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