LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

500 Days raise £40,000.

OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.

This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...

The Life-boat Kentwell was launched during a moderate S.W. breeze and moderate sea on the 14th December, and saved the crew of four hands of the trawler Buy Claude, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the north extension pier whilst outward...

JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.

ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...

AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...

The First World War is one the darkest chapters in our history, but we will never forget the countless acts of humanity that shone through – including those of RNLI lifeboat crews on the home front

This year, we celebrate...

Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...

THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...

When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’