LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI Deputy Director, Ray Kipling, recently received a letter and some photographs from Fernando Andrade, secretary of the Uruguayan lifeboat service ADES. The picture above shows the Montevideo station lifeboat ADES 14, formerly RNLI Solent... - View image in PDF

Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...

GRATITUDE is not always short-lived.

This letter comes from Warwickshire : " Once again on behalf of myself and family I have pleasure in sending you a cheque value £l 7s. 6d. as a small donation towards the fund...

THE death at Lytham of Thomas Clarkson, the late Coxswain of the Lytham Life-boat, at the ripe age of eighty-three, recalls one of the most terrible Life-boat disasters which has ever befallen the Institution. On December 6th, 1886, the...

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All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...

CLUNG TO DINGHY Tynemouth, Northumberland. On 5th July, 1964, the life-boat Tynesider was returning from a trip with members of the ladies' life-boat guild aboard when, just off the Northern pier, a capsized sailing dinghy was seen with...

MRS. EDITH MANBY, of Codsall, Staffordshire, completed, on New Year's Day 1936, a work which she began in April, 1935, of knitting woollen scarf-helmets for the life-boat crews round our coasts. Mrs. Manby had the help of 491 knitters...