LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Right: Before (Right) and After Pictures of the Courtmacsherry Harbour Boathouse
Right: Before (right) and after pictures of the Courtmacsherry Harbour boathouse. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
A Record Year
THE life-boat service broke two records in 1938. Its life-boats were launched to the rescue more often, and they saved or helped to save from destruction more boats and vessels, than ever before in its history of 115 years.
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (4)
MARCH 30TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A fishing boat. had been reported missing, but the life-boat could not find her. Later, wreckage was found. The boat must have been lost with both the men on board.- Rewards, £36 13s. 2d...
Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
Category: Articles
BRITANNIA RESCUE
We've been voted Road Rescue Best Buy for the 4th consecutive time by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine. We also recover trailers of any length. That's why the RNLI made us its official membership motoring rescue scheme...
Category: Advertisement
Michael
Force 11 gusting12 HEARING FROM Fishguard Coastguard at 2200 on Monday, January 13, that Michael of Famagusta, whose engine had broken down, was drifting about 18 miles off the entrance to Waterford, Dunmore East honorary secretary gave...
Nor' Wester, of Boston U.S
On the 20th April, the ship Nor" Wester, of Boston, U.S., with a crew of 24 men, bound from Cardiff to Monte Video with a cargo of coals, was passing this place in tow of a powerful steam-tug, when the wind sud- denly shifting from S.S...
May
Launches 32. Lives rescued 24.
MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E....
Category: Services
Life-Boat Essay Competition: Presentation of Prizes
The Greater London Shield.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 13th July, the Challenge Shield for Greater London and the individual prizes won by the schools of Greater London in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year...
Category: Articles