LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cargo vessel alert AT 0450 ON FRIDAY. October 16, 1987— the day Britain was hit by the worst storms for 200 years—the coaster Union Mars reported to coastguards that she had suffered steering failure three miles south south east of St...

It is also with great regret that we record the death of His Excellency the President of Ireland, Mr Erskine Hamilton Childers. The condolences of the Institution have been conveyed to his widow and the RNLI was represented at the funeral in...

ON July 9th the St. Helier motor life- boat, Howard D. paid a visit to France at the invitation of La Socie'te' des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons. The visit was made possible by the good offices of Mons. J. Delalande, French consul...

As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...

The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade

When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...

Coxswain Blogg Twice Rams The Bulwarks of the Wreck and So Gets The Life-Boat Right Under The Rigging Where The Two Men Are. First One and Then The Other Jumps Aboard. - View image in PDF

Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 22nd day of April, 1852, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the...