LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Grahame Farr, one of the honorary archivists of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, is a true historian and whenever he publishes a paper containing the results of his research he makes available a new and valuable chapter to all those...

AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...

APRIL 26TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 3.30 in the afternoon a doctor telephoned that on the previous afternoon a man on Papa Stour had fallen down the cliffs and fractured a thigh. It was urgent that the man should be brought to Lerwick Hospital...

Station Aberdeen Aberdovey Abersoch Aberystwyth Aith Aldeburgh Alderney Amble Amble Angle Anstruther Appledore Arbroath Arbroath Arklow Arran Arranmore Atlantic College Ballycotton Ballyglass Baltimore Bangor Barmouth Barra Island Barrow...

Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.

And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...

The RNLI AGM and annual presentation of awards will take place at The Barbican, London, on 21 May 2015. Details of the AGM will be mailed to Governor members of the RNLI, and more details about both events will feature in the next edition of...

Borth: Helmsman Ronald Davies was accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue on August 18 of two people trapped by the tide at the foot of cliffs. The photograph shows the area at low tide: x marks the position... - View image in PDF

Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...