LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Irish Ship River Avoca
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial to the Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives on Service on 3rd December, 1920
Bronze Tablet on the Memorial To The Five Men of the Rhoscolyn Life-Boat Who Lost Their Lives On Service On 3rd December 1920. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
Category: Articles
Staff Coxswain Billy Dent Has Called In to Discuss Problem With Cdr Roe Short Telephone Call to the Department Concerned Soon Resolves the Query
Staff Coxswain Billy Dent has called in to discuss a problem with Cdr Roe. A short telephone call to the department concerned soon resolves the query.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below), Built In the Same Simple and Rugged Style to Suit the Surroundings on The
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alethea and the Southern Cross
Howth, Co. Dublin.—During a vacht race on the evening of the 26th of May, 1954, the 5-ton yacht Alethea was dismasted off Portmarnock Strand about two miles from Howth. The yacht Ann Gail wirelessed a distress call for her to Portpatrick...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Ban.
Kg. 3.
Kg. 4.
; Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...
Category: Articles
Do Whales Get the Bends?
Do Whales Get the Bends?
by Tony Rice
Review by Lucie Grisdale
Tony Rice is a former marine biologist who now spends his time lecturing about his experiences and knowledge of the ocean on...
Category: Articles
The Baltimore Lifeboat (shown inset)
The bales were found to contain cocaine, and the Baltimore lifeboat (shown inset) later collected around 60 while clearing the debris, before handing them over to Revenue offi cers and gardaí.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's Oldest Supporters
THE Institution has received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 104th year. Two years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling how uncertain her next year's subscription must...
Category: Donations