LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the past year H.M. Coastguard has taken part in about 750 incidents round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Some were dangerous and spectacular, others were minor cliff rescues. They ranged from the recovery of a St....

THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.

In 88 of those 169 launches the...

Keeping fundraising going after the Summer is no mean feat, but for some communities it can be even trickier. With residents
across Orkney keen to support their local crew, Longhope Lifeboat Guild volunteers toured their bazaar...

It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.

He...

Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...

Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...

When his craft hit a wave and flipped him into the chilly November sea, a boater was left holding on for dear life. Could anyone help him – or even see him?

‘I was just about to put on my hairnet and get baking when the...

Relief Arun, at Newhaven, September 7 A weekend of severe gales and storms was followed by a glorious sunny day on Wednesday September 7, 1983, the day on which 52-25, a new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat provided by the trustees of the late L. G...