LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A ship's life-boat full of people came ashore 'at 9 A.M. on the 1st September. The officer in charge of her reported that she was from the s.s. Lake Nepigon, of Montreal, which had stranded on Arklow Bank, and that...

Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...

Lifeboat on show for 100 years Redcar’s Zetland museum, the home of the world’s oldest surviving lifeboat, celebrated its centenary on 1 May.

The Zetland lifeboat arrived at Redcar in 1802, predating the foundation of the...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While a moderate gale from the S.S.W. was blowing and in thick weather, the schooner Mary Jane, of and for Eamsey from Whitehaven with a cargo of coal, was seen labouring heavily, having her sailstorn and rendered...

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Harbour accident THE LIFEBOAT CALL-OUT paging signal alerted Second Coxswain Christopher Tett of Weymouth on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 31. 1986. He drove straight to the lifeboathouse, and as he made his way inside he noticed...

Signals of distress from the Middle Lightship were observed on the morning of the 19th January. The same Life-boat was launched and proceeded to a schooner which was found to be sunk with the lower masts' heads out of water. As no one...

The BBC recently broadcast its first Bargain Hunt programme from Northern Ireland with two competing teams from Portaferry lifeboat station. - View image in PDF