LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fhe spirit of Tradition Vlichel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to lead their 270 year old company, vas in England when the mnouncement was made to phase ut the traditional Naval rum ation in 1970. This included the...

BULL BAY.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th May, a stiff breeze blowing from the E., the Guion Company's steamer Dakota, bound from Liverpool to New Tork, was reported to be ashore close in under the cliffs, inside the East Mouse. This vessel...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.25 a.m. on 26th March, 1967, the yacht Wombat, lying a mile and a half south south east of Portland breakwater light, reported to Niton radio that she was taking in water and had run out of fuel. There was a gale from...

When Spring approaches and inshore lifeboats prepare for their busy period, George Dadson, RNLI truck driver, knows there is far more going on behind the scenes than may meet the public eye…George is responsible for ensuring the inflatables...

FOR the fourth year running the Insti- tution has received a gift of a year'scollection of halfpennies. It numbered 468, or nineteen shillings and sixpence..

G-BIMBBY,—At 9 A.M. on the 12th December the Manchester Unity Life-boat was launched to the assistance of the schooner Margaret of Carnarvon, which was ashore on the Trinity Sands with a signal of distress in her rigging. The Life-boat took...

Left to right:' The Ven. Archdeacon T. R. Brunslill, Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats, Mrs. R. J. Mulcahy, General R. J. Mulcahy, Sir George Shee, the Very Rev. Canon Lyons, Mr. H. G. Solomon, District... - View image in PDF

The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...