LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...

• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...

Elizabeth Ann, Falmouth EXACTLY AT 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 10, two RNAS Culdrose helicopters streaming RNLI flags flew past the Customs House Quay, Falmouth, thus raising the curtain on the first of the 1980 lifeboat naming...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1953 - 78,220 Disaster at Fraserburgh MONDAY the 9th of February, 1953, was a fine sunny day...

More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...

A right royal occasion at PlymouthThe poor weather didn't dampen spirits when HM The Queen named Plymouth's new £2M Severn class lifeboat on 23 July 2003. The Duke of Edinburgh accompanied The Queen at Queen Anne's Battery...

Tá na báid ar snámh san fharraige, Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir. The boats are floating on the sea, May the men come safely home.
Irish folk song

An island on western Europe’s extreme,...

GOURDON, N.B.—On the invitation of the local residents, a Life-boat Station has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Gourdon, a fishing vil- lage about 12 miles north of Montrose.

Shipwrecks are said to be...