LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pushed to the limit Two inshore lifeboats were tested to their limits on 9 March 2002, when an angling vessel with a crew of three was in difficulty 1.5 miles from Southend-on-Sea. The weather was fair and dry.

but there...

WESTHAVEN, ANGUS. At three o’clock in the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1944, a sudden change in the strength and direction of the wind raised a rather heavy sea which was breaking with great force over the rocks.

The...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town. Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1894, His GRACE THE DUKE or WESTMINSTER, K.G., in the Chair, the...

For the first time in its history the annual meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., referred to the decisions...

lives 1908. Launching. saved.

Jan. 1. 10. - a.m. Schooner William Thompson, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour Life- boat rendered assistance.

„ 6. 8.40 a.m. Smack Young Bert,, of Lowestoft. Kessingland No. 1...

The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...

DUNGENESS, KENT, AND WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—At 3.30 A.M. on the 19th February, the s.s. Lake Michigan, of Liverpool, collided with a sailing vessel about two miles S.W. of Dungeness.

The steamer, a very large one of 9240 tons...

BY the death on 4th August last of Captain T. Fitzgibbon McCombie, M.B.E., the honorary representative in Dublin of the Royal Humane Society, passed away, at the age of 82, a man who, though he was not a life-boatman, had the rare...