LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...

Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States troop- ship General Randall was passing through the Pentland Firth with a badly injured man...

FENIT (TRALEE BAY), Co. K«BBY.—The Life-boat John Willmot was launched at 1 P.M. on the 19th April and proceeded to the fishing steamer Salamander which had stranded on a dangerous reef of rocks in Brandon Bay in a dense...

During the visit of the Prince of Wales, in December last, to Londes- borough Park, John Owston, coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, belonging to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was in attendance upon the Earl of Londesborough...

COXSWAIN WILLIAM ROBINSON of Newbiggin, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Dent, the representatives of the twenty-five women launchers of Newbiggin, and the five other Bronze Medallists who attended the Annual Meeting to be decorated, were the guests of...

ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.

This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...

Address at the Annual Meeting.

MR. CHAIRMAN, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, although this is the first time that I have spoken at your Annual Meeting, I am by no means unfamiliar with the work of the life-boat...