LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...

JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15...

SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock...

The RNLI took on the running of Cowes Lifeboat Station on the Isle of Wight in 2008. Based in a small, temporary facility within Shepards Wharf Marina, Cowes lifeboat launched 41 times last year and rescued 49 people.

Now,...

She has already driven a tank and swum with sharks in aid of the RNLI this year – and now 77-year-old Jean Shields wants to drive a high-speed racing car. Jean, President of the RNLI’s Troon Fundraising Branch, raised almost £500 for...

SEPTEMBER 4TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 6.55 A.M. the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S.. Laird’s Castle, of Glasgow, had been in collision. Her position was given as about one mile west of Sanda Island. A moderate S....

WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...

RNLI crew around the UK and Ireland are often called heroes for their acts of incredible bravery. But they are as human as the rest of us

You’re the ones with RNLI written all over you. You’re the people who are there to...