LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...

WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...

Three rescued from yacht in severe gales The events leading up to Alderney lifeboat' s service to the 23ft yacht Whisky Mac are recounted in the report of St Peter Port lifeboat's Silver Medal service to the yacht Sena Sioria (main...

THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...

On the 8th June the Finnish steamer Otava, of Helsingfors, ran aground in a thick fog at Tunstall, about twenty miles south of Bridlington. She was bound for Hull with a cargo of timber, and carried a crew of sixteen. A moderate N.E....

PENLEE | 29 JUNE

Penlee’s crew were in the throes of their Sunday morning training session when they received the call for help.

Provident, a 1920s former Brixham trawler with 13 people onboard, had...

Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables

Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...

‘HER MAJESTY ENJOYED A VERY HAPPY DAY’
Our article on Her Majesty The Queen’s relationship with the RNLI stirred a few memories – here’s just one of them …
In 1992, whilst serving with the Thames Valley Police, I had...