LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ferry aground in North Sea Cromer - East Division An arduous service by Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat to a 5,000 ton roll-on, rolloff ferry which was aground in bad weather has earned the Coxswain, Richard Davies, a letter of appreciation...

The caring approach to a sensitive subject THERE COMES A TIME IN LIFE when it's natural to consider your own funeral....

and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them.

Not the...

THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...

Coxswain Robinson, Second-Coxswain Nicholson and Motor Mechanic Scott, of New Brighton, Second- Coxswain Sim, of Fraserburgh, Coxswain Baker and Mr. Atkinson, Master of the tug, of Padstow, and Mr. Hugh MacKay, of Hilton,... - View image in PDF

In the course of 24 hours on 28th-29th October, 1880, the Scarborough life-boat was launched five times and rescued every life in danger—28 in all. The detail is part of a painting of the scene presented to Scarborough Corporation in 1897 by...

Ireland’s ‘voice of the sea’ may have stepped away from the microphone – but Tom MacSweeney is as vocal as ever when it comes to marine matters

For two decades, Tom MacSweeney’s voice has been synonymous with Ireland’s...

ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...

I.—Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S.

Seconded by Vice-Admiral SIR GEORGE SARTORIUS.

1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.

2.—Moved by GEORGE LYALL, Esq.,...