LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RACE TO THE RESCUE
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...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
Category: Articles
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 23rd of January, 1953, the Irish Lights Commissioners asked if the life- boat would land a man from the Black- water Lightvessel. His sister had died in Wexford, and the Commissioners' own boat was...
The Record of 1928
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT has been a year of splendid achievement for the Life-boat Service, overshadowed by a great tragedy.
During the year the Institution gave rewards for the rescue of no fewer than 591 lives....
Category: Annual Reports
The "Winston Churchill"
THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now...
Category: Articles
Question In the House
In the House of Commons on llth December, 1967, there was a written question put by Mr. Edward Rowlands, M.P. for Cardiff North, on the R.N.L.L Mr. Rowlands asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he would take steps to provide a...
Category: Articles
The Codling Bank Lightvessel
TO LIGHTVESSEL Wicklow. At 6.45 p.m. on 2ist June, 1965, Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Codling Bank lightvessel as his mother was seriously ill. This was...
The 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat Amelia Which Was Paraded In London In the 1968 Lord Mayor's Show the Same Life-Boat Was Also on Show In the Forecourt of St. Paul's Cathe
The 37-foot Oakley life-boat Amelia which was paraded in London in the 1968 Lord Mayor's Show. The same life-boat was also on show in the forecourt of St. Paul's Cathedral and the climax to her three-day stay was a service on board... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Beeching Model
THE famous life-boat model made by James Beeching of Great Yarmouth, which won the prize of 100 guineas offered by the Duke of Northumber- land in 1851 for the best design of a life-boat, can be seen today in the Municipal Museum of Science...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Whaler
The Lizard, Cornwall. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the police at Mullion that a sailing whaler, with a crew of six from the Royal Naval...