LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.

At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...

All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.

They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 49 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November, 30th, 1934 - 63,862 On Service in a Motor Life-boat.1 By A. E. JOLLY, Motor...

Feature Mastering the technique Although it’s not the urgent call of pagers that wake the crew members from their slumbers but the unwelcome shrill of alarm clocks, it’s no ordinary morning for Kieran and Paul. They are staying for a week at...

The new life-boat is a gift of Miss Margaret Paterson of St. Petersburg, Florida. - View image in PDF

(Right) Seen from the air the piers at the entrance to Shoreham Harbour shows the development of the port over the years. - View image in PDF

The lifeboat station is circled.. - View image in PDF

Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1986 lifeboats launched 3,150 times and saved 1,260 lives.

In 1985 lifeboats launched 3,899 times (an average of nearly 11 times a day) and saved 1,747 lives (an average of...

A Caithness fundraiser tells us what it’s like to be part of the RNLI family
What do you do?
I’m deputy chairman of the Wick RNLI Fundraising Branch. I’ve been involved for over a decade. Wick’s quite a small...