LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...
The High Superstructure of An Arun Class Lifeboat May Make Her Look 'Top Heavy' to Some Eyes But Is the Key to Her Ultimate Stability and Safety
The high superstructure of an Arun class lifeboat may make her look 'top heavy' to some eyes, but is the key to her ultimate stability and safety.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht and an Aeroplane
JULY 11TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 8.15 A.M. the life-boat station was informed that an air battle was imminent. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes later it was reported that an armed yacht...
Estelle and Finola
Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour later...
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
Black Diamond and Karoon
RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...
Pilot Me II and the S.S. Arthur Wright
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 8th of January, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Pilot Me II, as the weather was worsening. The life-boat crew assembled, but at 6.30 the coast- guard rang...
Past and Present
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
Category: Articles
Top right: 'Storm Force' is the Institution's club for the under-16s, and members are encouraged to take an active interest in the lifeboat service.
Top right: 'Storm Force' is the Institution's club for the under-16s, and members are encouraged to take an active interest in the lifeboat service. Here, Storm Force member Kay Metcalfe meets the 1990 medallists, her prize as a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...
Category: Articles