LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 25th June the services of the Thomas Bewick were again called into requisition. Four of the herring boats belonging to the port were waiting for the tide to rise sufficiently for them to get into harbour, but in the prevailing...

• Writers of fictional sea stories invent a hero, perhaps a villain and a few horrendous storms, then throw in a little romance to hold the interest of the reader. Life, of course, does not fit such neat patterns and only two parts of the...

Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...

Thursday, ZOth January, 1927.

Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted Commodore Sir Bertram f. Hayes, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., R.N.R. (retd.) as a Member of the Committee of...

THE Y.L.A., with a growing membership of 7,000, continues to recruit members and with the yachting season in full swing it is hoped that members will do their utmost to recruit yet more names to the books.

By joining the...

Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Review by
Carol Waterkeyn

American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer...

At a time when many people are exchanging New Year wishes, what would your message to our volunteer crews be?

As part of an appeal to raise funds for two new Shannon class lifeboats and launching equipment, supporters are...

FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...