LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...

APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...

Reproduction of a Painting by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I.

As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the...

725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.

VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.

ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...

Selling gifts and souvenirs is an excellent way of raising both funds and the profile of the lifeboat service. RNLI (Sales) provides a range of products for the wide variety of shops and events run by volunteers. In 2001 its turnover was...

Are you ready to give it some welly this Mayday? Our crews’ iconic boots are the inspiration behind our fundraising campaign, which this year runs from 26 April to 2 May. When they rush to the lifeboat station and pull those wellies on, many...

IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...

AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.

At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...