LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...

Charlie Sharrod has been coxswain of Hastings lifeboat since 1992. He began his association with Hastings lifeboat in 1974 as a shore helper before joining the crew in 1983. He became second coxswain in 1987, has been an emergency mechanic... - View image in PDF

The German ketch Reinhard, of Westrhauderfehn, stranded on North Sunderland Point during hazy and very cold weather in the early morning of the 24th February. A strong southerly breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was inclined to be...

IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...

Their fundraising roots lie in the 19th century, but today’s branches continue to attract new members and raise millions of pounds. How do they do it?

From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...

THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...

Peterhead's New Tyne Class Lifeboat On Her Slipway Ready For The Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF

Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans unveiled for first time Coxswain Richard Evans BEM of Moelf re is the subject of an RNLI-commissioned portrait which is to hang in a meeting room at Poole Headquarters.

The artist of the... - View image in PDF