LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Can you imagine what life might have been like 200 years ago for children in the 19th century (1800-1899)? II was a lime when everything depended on how rich Iheir parents were. The government did little to help the poor who were trying to...

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, who celebrated her eightieth birthday this year, has been concerned with the RNLI for more than a third of its history, for her active support of the lifeboat service goes right back to the...

THE ANNUAL MEETINGS - 1994 AGM and APA News The Institution's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will, as usual, take place in London at the South Bank Centre, this year on Tuesday 10 May...

Coxswain Teesmouth Tyne class lifeboat Bronze medal 26 August 1989 A NNW Force 7 was blowing on to rocks underasheer cliff when Coxswain Race took the Relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher in to heavy breaking seas to rescue the... - View image in PDF

Then and now: The lifeboat house at Dun Laoghaire in the days of oar (above) and of outboard motors (right). In 1938 the boathouse ceased to be used by the RNLI and today's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat lies afloat in the harbour.

Weston-super-Mare’s lifeboats were needed on 31 May when a family of nine, including six children, got stuck in mud at the mouth of the River Axe.

The crew of the D class lifeboat were forced to beach her alongside the...

Sea trials of the prototype Shannon class lifeboat are underway. She is pictured here proving her ability to selfright.

This new all-weather lifeboat class, due to go into service next year, will be powered by waterjets,...

Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.

Mr Acland opened...