LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is a charitable institution, incorporated by Royal Charter, for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck.

As however a rigid adherence to the precise object of the Institution...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the afternoon of the 9th September, 1938, a small boat carrying two men and a seven-year-old girl capsized about three-quarters of a mile off Shoreham beach. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a...

Poop deck ftxky, a nine-year-old Labrador cross, was swept out to sea after racing into ftesea ro chase seagulls at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Haifa mfe from shore. Rocky soon tired of doing doggy-paddle and was relieved to...

Launching a life-boat is not always as easy as it looks. When the Flamborough life-boat was launched to help a boat on 6th January 1968, she ran into a rain gulley. Here the launchers are shown digging a trench to divert the water..View image in PDF

FOR THE FIRST TIME ever the RNLI had two different stands at Earls Court and for many of the thousands of visitors there was no doubt that the lifeboats were stars of the show. The spotlight fell on us time and again allowing us to give a...

•1824-1974 See how 98,500 lives have been saved by men like these This is just one of the remarkable photographs included inTheObserver Lifeboat Exhibition.

They are the work of Observer photographer, Chris Smith.who spent...

Chiswick lifeboat crew were on exercise on 22 March when they were tasked to a barge drifting beam-on towards Hammersmith Bridge. The barge’s engine had stalled and would not restart, and she couldn’t deploy her anchor. The lifeboat took the...

Captain John Tickell, honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station from 1978 to 1985..