LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats from Many Member Countries of the International Lifeboat Federation Alongside During the 1991 Conference In Oslo.
Lifeboats from many member countries of the International Lifeboat Federation alongside during the 1991 conference in Oslo. The RNLI's Mersey class is clearly visible, as are several Colin Archer-type sailing lifeboats long since retired... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Donaghadee's Future Lifeboat (In Foreground Left) Is One of Four Steel-Hulled 44' Waveneys Building at Bideford Shipyard North Devon When This Photograph Was Taken In
Donaghadee's future lifeboat (in foreground, left) is one of four steel-hulled 44' Waveneys building at Bideford Shipyard, North Devon. When this photograph was taken, in January, her aluminium alloy deck plates were being offered up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
THANES to the courtesy of Mr. SUMMEE I.
KIMBALI,, the General Superintendent of the United States Government Life-Saving Service, we are enabled to place before onr readers a general outline of the operations of that...
Category: Articles
Obituary
WE regret to announce the death, #t the ripe age of ninety years, of the Rev. Chancellor Owen LI. Williams, of Llanrhyddlad Rectory, Cemlyn, Angle- sey, a Life-boat Station with which the reverend gentleman had been closely and honourably...
Category: Obituaries
Allegrity
Fahnouth, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the morning of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were seen off Greek Point. There was a strong south- south-west wind blowing, and the sea was rough. At...
Gunhild
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At about 5.30 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, the No. 1 man at the Gyleen coast lifesaving station telephoned that a large steamer was near a very dangerous shoal of rocks and appeared to be trying to get clear. A...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
At 9 a.m. on 8th November, 1965, the Inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick keeper on the Tusker Rock lighthouse and requested that he be taken off....
A Dutchman's Gift.
A Dutchman in London, unable to send his usual subscription of £10 tc his own life-boat Service in the Netherlands, has sent it instead to the Institution..
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AUGUST 31ST. - BALTIMORE, CO CORK. An explosion had been heard and a flare seen, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £11 16s..
Leading a Double Life
Whatever the weather, day or night, when the distress call comes, RNLI crew members drop everything and race for their lifeboats. Usually, the only full time member of a crew is the mechanic at all-weather stations and most lifeboat men and...
Category: Articles