LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...

The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing

What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...

WHO IS CLODAGH MCKENNA?
Born in Cork, Clodagh McKenna describes her cooking as: ‘A fresh, modern take on Irish food with a focus on seasonal and local produce.’ Seafood is at the core of her cooking, influencing everything from...

WE have, for some years past, noted from time to time the progress of the Life-boat Organizations in other coun- tries which have established a Service of this character, whether under the State or, as in our case, on a voluntary basis. In...

UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.

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THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...