LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...

WEXFORD, IRELAND.—The No. 1 (large) Life-boat, placed at Wexford about four- teen years since, having become unfit for further service, it was replaced by the Institution in November, 1871—a very fine boat, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide,...

Holly Phillips has been a crew member of Poole lifeboat since October 1994.

Holly's appointment brought the number of serving women crew members to 100 for the first time in the RNLI's... - View image in PDF

Every summer, RNLI lifeguards patrol more than 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands, keeping thousands of beachgoers safe. But how can we keep people safe as winter approaches?

A scheme being trialled on some of...

On the same day the barque Spectator, of Whitby, was ob- served from Yarmouth to part from her cables, and after coming into collision with another vessel, to drive in the direc- tion of the Scroby Sands. The Mark Lane life-boat went off...

Troon, Ayrshire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow rescued nine lives from the steamer Christina Dawn, of Gloucester.

Rewards, the thanks of the Institu- tion on vellum to the coxswain...

THE Institution has stationed one of its fast inshore rescue boats at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to help Yarmouth's 48-foot 6-inch life-boat in rescue coverage of the Needles Channel-Lymington area.

Yarmouth's new... - View image in PDF

A TUNE FAMILIAR TO MILLIONS greeted Jan Harvey as she arrived at RNLI headquarters to draw the 33rd national lottery on April 30; it was the theme to Howard's Way, the BBC TV series in which she stars. Miss Harvey had kindly travelled to...