LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer from Courtmacsherry receive their Bronze medals from HRH The Duke of Kent. - View image in PDF

(Below) Second Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer with the Trent class Frederick Storey Cockburn.. - View image in PDF

An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.

Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...

BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.

Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...

An extract from The Life-boat or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution for May 1855 showing the Institution's income and expenditure from 1st April, 1854, to 3lst March, 1855.

To LIFE-BOATS, viz— £ s. d...

ON the night of the 19th of October last, in a gale of wind, the small sixoared self-righting life-boat belonging to the National Life-boat Institution at Dungeness proceeded through a heavy sea, managed by eight Coast-guard men, to a wreck...

Mrs Eva Sugden at 107 years of age.

Mrs Sugden was a founder member of Spenborough ladies' guild in 1928 and for many years served as honorary secretary. She remained a member of the guild, taking great interest in all...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 12th of October, 1949, a fisherman reported that a vessel was on the rocks at East Point, and at 9.35 the life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched. In a very strong south- westerly breeze,...