LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Baltimore, Co. Cork;—At about 9.20 in the morning of the 9th of June, 1948, fishermen returning to harbour reported a boat in distress off Fastnet Rock.

It was thought that she might be the local motor fishing boat Ebenezer...

ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TORN MAINSAIL Plymouth, Devon. At 8.30 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the Rame Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a yacht whose sails had carried away two miles east-south-east of...

Early in 1945 the German U-boats renewed their attacks on shipping close to the British coasts and one of the first ships to suffer was an American steamer which was torpedoed off South Wales. She was taken in tow, but broke away in a gale...

AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...

LIST OF OFFICERS.

PRESIDENT.

Capt. H.R.H. The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., K.G.

PRESIDENT OP THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES—H.E.H. The DUCHESS OF YORK.

CENTRAL...

Arbroath, Angus. At 11.3 on the night of the 6th September, 1961, a message was received from the Mont- rose life-boat station asking for the help of the Arbroath life-boat in the search that was being made for the pleasure boat Lena of...

Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.

This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...

A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...