LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Dedication of the Southwold and Dunwich Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

The Duke of Atholl Who Headed The Rnli Delegation. - View image in PDF

CLACTON-ON-SEA. — In response to messages by telephone and signal guns fired from the Swin Middle Light-Vessel, on the morning of the 22nd March, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 8.50 and found the brig Comforter, of Tonsberg,...

Of the 11 new life-boats ordered in 1971 four were of the 44-foot steel Waveney class, three of the 37-foot Mark i Rother (above), two of the 50-foot steel Thames (below), one of the 52-foot Mark II Arun and one of the 71-foot steel Clyde... - View image in PDF

NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 21st January, 1942, the Newcastle life-boat rescued thirty-nine of the crew of the S.S. Browning, of Liverpool.

COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded the gold medal.

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TWO LANDED FROM CAPSIZED RACING YACHT Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 2.50 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th of August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from a member of the public who had seen a red flare being burnt on board a...

(left) Applause from the audience as the awards are presented. - View image in PDF

THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...