LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

All lifeboat stations are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to help the crew take real-time, high quality images of their lifesaving activities.

RNLI lifeguard units also have access to the cameras. The RNLI... - View image in PDF

WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...

ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....

APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...

Seven Dorset lifeboatmen, from Poole, Swanage and We y mouth, attended the annual national service for seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 24, when, for the first time, the RNLI flag was carried up the aisle; the flag was carried...

FEBRUARY 10TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. The Dutch steamer Burgerdijk, of Rotterdam, had been torpedoed about sixty miles south of the Bishop Rock, but her crew were saved by another Dutch steamer. The life-boat covered over one hundred...

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.

Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...