LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, who celebrated her eightieth birthday this year, has been concerned with the RNLI for more than a third of its history, for her active support of the lifeboat service goes right back to the...

USA COAST TO COAST 2003 Departure Dates and Costs 22 April £2250 8.22 July £2490 6 May £2350 2.9 Sept £2490 3 June £2390 30 Sept £2390 17 June £2490 New York to the Rockies and California Travel with the...

Far right: Joel was awarded the Jolly Fisherman, a Skegness community award, for his services to lifesaving. - View image in PDF

FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...

Thank you to everyone who organised and supported SOS events around the UK and RoI on 30 January. SOS day is the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, and this year’s event was well supported in schools, companies and clubs, and RNLI fundraising...

As we plan the rollout of the next generation of crew kit, we review a stylish and practical history of lifeboat looks – from 1824 to the present day

Through driving rain and gale-force winds, our lifeboat crews have been...

Starting them young! J o s e p h Stravrinidis, aged six, of Southport has been doing sterling work for the RNLI. During the September meeting of the S o u t h p o r t branch, he presented the treasurer with money raised by selling drawings...

Ex-lifeboats from all over the UK got together for the Fowey lifeboat rally in June Photo: Nicholas Leach. - View image in PDF