LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...

Irish Division Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were...

ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.

The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...

An ingenious invention having the above title has recently been patented by R. G.SIBBALD, Esq., a surgeon, residing at Liver- pool. Its object is to enable a ship to carry a line to the land on a lee-shore, or to another vessel or boat, or...

Naming and dedication Ceremonies rlOWth - Arun class Hibernia The naming ceremony of the RNLI's new relief 52ft Arun class lifeboat was held on Saturday 16 September at Howth Harbour.

Mrs Maureen Haughey named the new...

No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.

Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...

RNLI Directory To advertise in the RNLI Directory next issue, please contact Leah Fitz-Henry on 01225 465060 or email [email protected]. Travel in luxury on board Patricia as she completes her vital work maintaining navigation...

TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...