LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...

FOR a joint service to a sand dredger Coxswain Derek Scott, of the Mumbles life-boat, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution, and Helmsman Lindsey S. Knipe and crew members James Lock and Richard A. Comley, of the Porthcawl IRB...

Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat during a night service in severe...

French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...

From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1967 Three Bronze Medals for Welsh crew Three members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans,...

100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...

ADvertoriAL Princess Diaries Ken Johnson from Essex won a cruise, sponsored by RNLI corporate partner Travelscope, after recommending a friend to receive the RNLI gift catalogue. He and his partner Vivienne boarded the Princess Danae for 7...

Swanage volunteers were rudely awoken at 5.25am one Sunday. Within just 10 minutes both station lifeboats were alongside a sinking vessel

On 9 October 2010, Swanage lifeboat and shore crews had...