Lifeboats Ireland 1993 magazine – RNLI Ireland annual: Clogherhead's new Mersey class lifeboat; the Severn and Trent classes, lifeboat station facts, awards, Tom MacSweeney

Lifeboats Ireland 1993 (cover price £1.50), the annual magazine of RNLI Ireland – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, founded 1824 – published by Afloat Magazine on behalf of the RNLI. Cover: the crew of Clogherhead's new Mersey class lifeboat (12-31) under way, photographed by Colin Watson. Contents: Editorial (page 5); Operational Overview, the year's services around the Irish coast (6); Facts about Lifeboat Stations (12); 50 Years Ago, looking back to 1943 (20); Awards (24); The Severn and Trent classes, the RNLI's new generation of all-weather lifeboats (32); Retirements (36); Ceremonies (39); Fundraising, with branch and club returns from golf clubs, yacht clubs and sailing clubs north and south (40); Reflections of Tom MacSweeney (51); Revenue (56); Obituaries (62). The masthead lists the Irish members of the RNLI Committee of Management under chairman Michael Vernon: Clayton Love Jnr (Deputy Chairman RNLI), Lord Killanin, Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, Ronald M. Delany, Wilson Ervin, Terence Johnson, Wallace Clark and Richard Burrows, with Inspector of Lifeboats Peter Bradley and the coast and organising staff. Edited by Dermot Desmond with managing editor David O'Brien; production by Willy Brennan; printed by The Kilkenny People. Marine trade advertising throughout, including Avon inflatables from Kilmacsimon Boatyard, Darragh Ltd of Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, and the Kinsale Harbour Commissioners. 64 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, stapled. THEMES: RNLI lifeboats, Irish lifeboat stations, Mersey, Severn and Trent class lifeboats, sea rescue and maritime history, Irish sailing and boating, 1990s Ireland.

Author: Dermot Desmond (ed.), David O'Brien (Managing Editor)

Publisher: RNLI Ireland/Afloat Magazine

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good