LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Open a savings account with Furness Building Society and support the RNLI.

Furness Building Society has launched an affinity account with the RNLI under a ‘You save – we give’ banner. The society will make a cash payment...

The gold medal for gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John B. McLean, of Peterhead, the silver medal to David F. Wiseman, the motor mechanic, and the bronze medal to each of the other six members of the crew for rescuing the crew of...

JANUARY 29TH-31ST and FEBRUARY 1ST.

- CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.50 A.M. information came to the Cloughey station from the coastguard at Tara that the S.S. Alhena, of Rotterdam, of 5,000 tons, laden with...

NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.

—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half...

(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...

Lifeboat Services (from page 118) spectacles and dived into the water to help the woman. At the same time John Wall threw a line to the man approaching with the children.

On reaching the woman Richard Wheeler, a trained...

A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...

THE year 1929 was remarkable for the series of intense gales in its last three months, following on an autumn of prolonged drought. The gales are de- scribed on another page. Here it is sufficient to say that during the ninety- two days of...