LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 17, 25 and July 22 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 1, 2, 17, 20, 26, July 2, 8, 20, August 5, 16, 24, 25 and 27 Aberystwyth, Dyfed June 3, 17, July 30 and August 2 Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 26 Amble, Northumberland June 24 and...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...

• THERE HAVE BEEN many lifeboat histories produced by Jeff Morris in recent years, all of which have been meticulously researched and illustrated.

The Story of the Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats is no exception. He traces...

Congratulations! Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the RNLI's supporters the lifeboat service is now on an extremely sound financial footing, and looks set to continue that way. Twenty years ago things were far from rosy, but...

When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own

Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of  some...

THE Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Light-houses and Light - vessels recommended that five light-vessels be immediately connected with the shore by a telegraphic cable, viz., the Goodwin, at the north end of the sand; the...

THIS fine steamer was totally wrecked on the Hasborough Sands, off the Norfolk coast, on the 20th October last, having grounded there on the Sunday previously. She belonged to Liverpool, and was 2,880 tons burden, and was commanded by a...