LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...

Here at the RNLI we’re sorry to report the death of Trevor Grills, singer with the shanty group Fisherman’s Friends. He died on 11 February, after being injured in an accident at a concert venue that also killed the manager of the group,...

A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...

AUGUST 6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 1.30 in the afternoon the Swedish Iron Ore Co., Middlesbrough, telephoned that their motor vessel Lena Broden was off that port and needed a pilot. The sea was too heavy for the pilot cutter to put out,...

The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...

Two of a set of Cavan Crystal Gaelic coffee (or wine) glasses. Each glass carries a different RNLI decoration. Price £3.50 from RNLI Dublin Office (10 Merrion Square), or from our shop at Bell Parade, Glebe Way, West Wickham, Kent... - View image in PDF

On the 16th December, 1939, the Torbay life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the motor schooner Henrietta, of Truro.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM H. H. MOGRIDGE was awarded a clasp to his silver medal.

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Dover, Kent. About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, news was received that four soldiers had been cut off by the tide near the South Foreland lighthouse. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea. At 1...