LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Daniel L Gibson A £2M Severn class lifeboat was officially named at Hull Marina on Thursday, 24 July 2003.

The cost of the lifeboat, which is now part of the relief fleet, was met by a substantial bequest from the...

The RNLI’s many boathouses are often adapted through their lifetimes to meet changing operational needs but sometimes they must be vacated entirely – and then enter a whole new existence

If walls could speak, those of old...

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—The Life-boat placed on this station twenty years since by the Institution has recently been replaced by a new self-righting ' boat, 37 ft. long, 9 ft. 3 in. wide, and rowing twelve oars, double banked; she is pro-...

TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...

AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 26th cf December, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lerwick, Shetland Isles, life-boat station, Mr. P. Bruce Laurenson, learnt from the coastguard that the Swedish motor vessel Samba was drifting 122 miles...

Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI

Stepping up the safety message

The RNLI’s thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones to the sea in 2016. A summer of hot weather...

To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...

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