LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...

Four weeks after suffering spinal injuries falling 10m down a cliff on the Isle of Sheppey, 17-year-old
Logan Enfield called in to Sheerness Lifeboat Station to thank the crew who came to his rescue.
Logan, visiting...

Not what it seems... Marine Engineer e$ alongside the River Bus pontoon at Festival Pier between the meetings to allow visitors to look aboard.. - View image in PDF

Zodiac Inflatables, the incomparable blow-up boats from France are portable, rigid and designed to be directionally stable with full manoeuvrability. What's more they are long lasting-designed to operate in continuous rugged...

41 foot G.R.P. experimental Life-boat powered by Thornycroft T400 Diesels.

ft Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Limited, Marine Engine Division, Basingstoke, Hants. Tel: Basingstoke 3221..

Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Eddy John Porthcawl crew member and shore helper, in December 2001 Captain F Sheridan Galway deputy launching authority, on 4 April Tommy Alcock Former Holyhead coxswain, on 7...

OCT. 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At, 12.28 P.M a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that H.M.S. Wanderer expected to arrive in Yarmouth Roads at 1.30 P.M. and that a...

WHEN thieves broke into the Whitby County Club at the end of last year and robbed the till of £5, they also took a life-boat collecting box containing £11 10s. The Prudential Assurance Company replaced not only the £5 taken...