LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...

Butaseis Together with countless people throughout Torbay, I was extremely concerned over the presence of the liquid gas tanker Butaseis. I have been advised of the outstanding action taken by the coxswain and crew of the lifeboat in going...

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...

The oak of the RNLI grew from the acorn of Sir William Hillary's famous Appeal to the British Nation in 1823.

In the nature of nineteenth century writings the Appeal is too fulsome to reproduce in its entirety. Extracts...

Dear Editor I read Nick Page's letter regarding inflatable toys [the Lifeboat Summer 2006] with much fellow feeling. Being both a harbour master and an RNLI deputy launching authority I dislike these things with something close to a...

Dear Editor

I wonder if you can pass on my good wishes to those three lifeguards who saved the lives of the 40 children and teachers on the beach with the disappearing sandbank. The Summer holidays would have been...

When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger

Wicklow’s inshore and...

FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.

H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...