LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...

In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...

THE DRAW for the Shoreline Renault 5 car competition was made on October 28 by Dave Lee Travis on the Renault Car Stand at Earl's Court Motor Fair.

The lucky winner was Mr F. J. Hade of Wokingham and by now he should...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 17th of July, 1957, a telephone message was received that a motor boat needed help in Scotch Bay. She had a crew of five, one of whom was waving a shirt. The life-boat Dunleary II put...

OCTOBER DURING October life - boats were launched on service 50 times and rescued 41 lives.

ESCORT FOR KETCH IN TOW OF TRAWLER Walmer, Kent. At 1.42 early on the morning of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the...

MAROONED ON THE ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.43 in the afternoon of April the 22nd, 1947, the Ballycastle coastguard reported that a man, who had been missing in a small boat since the 20th had been reported on the Maidens Rocks,...

Can you help? A message from Corporate Fundraising Manager Barbara Trousdell: Do you have a few hours to spare for a couple of weeks a year? Would you like to become involved in making sure local promotions in aid of the Institution run...

On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...