LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DOVER.—A new life-boat and transporting- carriage have been sent to Dover by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the former boat stationed there being considered to be too small, and not to have sufficient rowing power. The new boat is 32...

PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia...

THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instrumental in saving lives during the year 1854-5.

April 23,...

Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.

TEN presentations of Centenary Vellums to Stations have taken place during the past summer, making the total of such Vellums presented forty-three. Nine of these...

Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of Spurn Light...

• As gracious as its subject, Salt- Water Palaces by Maldwin Drummond (Debrett, £8.95) recalls the halcyon days of the large private yacht and, in the words of the publishers: '. . . guides the reader gently below, down the carved...

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

Lifeboat Services from page 191 he would ground and he was advised to anchor.

A quarter of an hour later Pass of Dirriemore had dropped her anchor some seven miles south west of Hartland, and it held. By 0300 the wind had...