LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bowden
Skill and determination end 11-day ordealBeeps from several pagers interrupted Sunday mass in Courtmacsherry early on 1 December 2002. With a violent storm blowing outside the church the congregation and crew knew Lives could be in danger...
The Skye Passenger Ferry
Prompt action by lifeboat saves Skye car ferry from rocks Mallaig Scotland South Division The deputy second coxswain of the Mallaig lifeboat has received a letter of thanks after his prompt action when in command of the relief Arun class...
Star Thrower
Yacht saved in darkness SEVERE GALE TO STORM FORCE SOUthsouth- westerly winds were blowing on the night of Sunday May 25 when a message reached the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station that a 24ft yacht with auxiliary engine, Star...
Fundraising
RNLI staff, crew and volunteers spent an exhausting weekend in Newcastle from 20-22 June, representing the RNLI at the 10th UK and Ireland Corporate GamesAgainst tough competition, the RNLI has been appointed the official charity of the UK...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th November, 1934.
Sir GODFREY -BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— . - £ s. d.
South Metropolitan' Gas Co. ...
Category: Committee
Classifieds
GIFTS RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8 (XT The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea
The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...
Category: Articles
Gael Force
Tá na báid ar snámh san fharraige, Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir. The boats are floating on the sea, May the men come safely home.
Irish folk song
An island on western Europe’s extreme,...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the Columbus
A LAMENTABLE case of wreck, attended with great loss of life, and one highly dis- creditable to our country, we regret to say, occurred at the Hook Point, Waterford, early in the present year. We would gladly be spared the pain of recording...
Category: Services
Intrigue
Margate, Kent. At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 27th October, 1961, the coast-guard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Tongue lightvessel had wirelessed that a sailing yacht with four people on board was secured astern...