LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....

Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.

The ceremony was held at...

Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...

At midday on 2 January 2002, RNLI lifeboats became operational on the River Thames. For the first time, the capital has a 24-hour dedicated rapid response service on its river. There are four lifeboat stations, at Gravesend, Tower Pier,...

POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At ,' 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., j 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, j so as to be in readiness should the ser-vices of the boat be required, as...

(Jfte figure! refer to the mcmten oftlix Life-lmtt detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A, F. H., 131.

A Friend at Bradford, 63.

A. Lady, 16.

A Lady, 31.

A Lady,...

THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...

IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the American Ambassador referred to the war services of the Life-boats to American vessels, and spoke of the 200 Americans who, during •the war and the first year of peace, owed their lives to the...