LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(The figures refer to the numbtrt of the Life-boats detailed on pages 610-621.) Aberdovfy, Merioneth, 166. Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 128. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 32. Abersoch, Carrarvon, 170 Dm lin, Ireland, 267. ...

Manx Memories and Movements, by Samuel Norris, Isle of Man: The Norris Modern Press, Ltd., 12s. 6d.

MR. NORRIS is an English journalist who, in 1894, when not yet twenty years old, landed in the Isle of...

TWIN ENGINED inflatable lifeboats have been designated the C class. This is to distinguished them from the single engined 15ft 6in D class inflatables, well known all round the coast. All C class boats at the moment are 17ft 6in Zodiac Mk IV...

Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.

Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF

OCTOBER 11TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 4.35 in the morning the Whitby coastguard reported a message from Cullercoats wireless station that the S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London, bound for the Isle of Wight from Blyth, was...

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KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 2nd j January 1900 the Life-boat John Robert ' was launched at 1.45 A.M., rockets and guns having been fired from the Barrels Bock Light-vessel. A light S.E. wind was blowing at the time, the sea was moderate...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.5 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station, through the police, that Topmast No. S, a pontoon pile driver of Southampton, which was at work in connexion with a sewer to...