LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade

When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.15 in the night of the 29th of November, 1949, a Canisbay doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take him to Stroma Island to attend an injured man, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him. A...

Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...

1st Janu- ary. A steamer had stranded, but she got off without help, and went on her way.—Rewards, £17 6s..

engines iere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life.the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.

MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...

Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...

The schooner Confidence, of Aberystwith, struck on the Dulas Rocks, about five miles from this place, during a heavy gale from the S.W., at one o'clock on the morning of the 14th Nov.,. 1871, and, on the tide receding, she was for...

THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...