LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
Category: Articles
Unsung heroes: Vincent Rafter
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his involvement with the RNLI goes back even further
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his...
Category: Articles
Kate
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The yawl Kate, of Liverpool, in trying to enter the harbour on the 1st September in a strong breeze from the S.W. and a rough sea, was driven close to the North pier, A steam-tug took the yacht's tow-rope, but it...
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (2)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Blanche Maguerite, of Dundalk
Early in the morning of the 15th January, during thick weather, the barque Blanche Mar- guerite, of Dunkirk, and bound to that port, was wrecked on a reef off Brooke Chine. The Brooke Life-boat, George and Anne, was launched, and, under the...
Cover Picture
by Colin Watson Clogher Head's Mersey class lifeboat Doris Bleasdale punches through a steep sea in nasty conditions on her home patch.
Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT will appear in July 1995, and news... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Life-Boat Crews
There's fury in the tempest, and there's madness in the waves; The lightning snake coils round the foam, the headlong thunder raves; Yet a boat is on the waters filled with Britain's daring sons, Who pull like...
Category: Poetry
(Above) Leaving Jersey the Queen Mother Is Cheered on Her Way By the Lifeboat Crew Photograph By Courtesy of Jersey Evening Post
(Above) Leaving Jersey, The Queen Mother is cheered on her way by the lifeboat crew . . . - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Jersey Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Val of Sandness, Norway
During a gale from the S.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 23rd Jan., a schooner was observed to run into St. Andrew's Bay at daybreak, in the di- rection of the West Sands, and close to the broken water. On a gun being fired to warn her of...
Rescue By Irish Currach
Two Irishmen, neither in the regular service of the Institution, have each been awarded bronze medals for an unusual and gallant rescue carried out on the morning of 29th June, i964,atMeenogahane, Co. Kerry. The two men are Mr. Patrick O'...
Category: Services