LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics

Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...

'HE CHANGED MY LIFE'

I noticed the sad passing of former Newhaven Coxswain/Mechanic Len Patten (pictured) in the latest magazine and I would like it if this message could be passed on to his family and even used to...

DOVER.—A fisherman having reported, on the evening of the 20th of March, that he had seen a vessel ashore near the South Foreland Lighthouse, the Life-boat Henry William Pickersgill, R.A., was launched at 9 P.M., proceeded to her assistance,...

GORLESTON, NORFOLK. — The coastguard having informed the coxswain of the Life-boat Marie Lane that a vessel was burning flares in Yarmouth Roads, while a whole gale was blowing from the E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 31st January,...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 11.30 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been seen between two and three miles west-south-west of Towyn. At 11.45 the life-boat...

Sport diver and RNLI supporter Brian Minehane gets bitten by the maritime archaeology bug thanks to a sunken antique lifeboat …

I am an Irishman from Dublin, born in Kent, England, and who now...

FISHING COBLE FINDS BODY OF BOY Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 4th May, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Rosehearty bombing range. The police...

The latest Lottery has brought in just short of £1MfortheRNLI! After the winter 2005 income of almost £750,000, itself a record, the spring 2006 Lifeboat Lottery bettered all expectations with an amazing £976,000. This...