LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE presentation of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals awarded to the Coxswains and Crews of the Lowestoft Motor Life- boat and the Gorleston Pulling and Sailing Life-boat for the service to the s.s. Hopelyn on 19th-21st October, 1922, took...

THE experiments -with lighthouse illu- minants -which have been in progress at the South Foreland for twelve months, under a Committee of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, were brought to a conclusion in March last, and the Report was...

WHEN I TOOK my leave of the lifeboat service on December 31, 1973, it was after 21J years service as divisional inspector and superintendent of the Depot. At the age of 32 years I was serving as a lieutenant on the teaching staff of the...

In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?

The Mersey class lifeboat...

When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …

In 2012, two men...

WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.

It might...

The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...

Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.

This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...