LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At-6.30 A.M.

on 19th February the watchman re- ported that a vessel was ashore about one and a half miles north of the station.

The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Edward Birtteck were promptly assembled and...

THE RNLI has been selling souvenirs for well over half a century. The word 'souvenir' indicates what the main purpose originally was.

Small items which were expected to appeal to visitors to lifeboat houses were put...

Two saved from sinking fishing boat Cullercoat's Atlantic was called out to the fishing boat Cormorant when she began taking water about two miles to the east of the station on 31 March 1996.

It took less than five... - View image in PDF

RNLI Chief Executive Paul Boissier had the honour of meeting Pope Benedict XVI and HM The Queen on 16 September during a Papal visit to Holyrood House in Edinburgh.

Paul joined a number of charity bosses and heads of...

COXSWAIN GEORGE SWARTS, of Barry Dock, Glamorganshire, has won a bronze medal in the shipping class at the Model Engineering Exhibition held in London, with a model of the life-boat at The Mumbles..

Robert Brutnell, a life governor, who was formerly Editor of the local newspapers at Eastbourne for 17 years, giving publicity to the RNLI at every opportunity, before retiring to Potter Heigham, Norfolk..

How would the occupants of a yacht survive when it sank within seconds at the mouth of the Thames? Anne Millman finds out

On the overcast but cold morning of 17 February, Thames Coastguard at Waltonon- the-Naze heard an...

Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.

—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...