LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Direct Talking The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, with his views on 1997 and the future 9 Lifeboat Services 14 including Medal and Vellum services from around the...

Lifeboat on show for 100 years Redcar’s Zetland museum, the home of the world’s oldest surviving lifeboat, celebrated its centenary on 1 May.

The Zetland lifeboat arrived at Redcar in 1802, predating the foundation of the...

DEC. 29TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

During the evening the signal station reported rockets east of Filey Brigg.

A N.N.W. wind was blowing, of gale force at times, with a very heavy sea. The motor...

OCTOBER 18TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 4.15 P.M.

the naval authorities asked the Fleetwood life-boat to go to the help of a vessel aground about one hundred yards W. by N. of Shell Wharf Buoy, and the motor...

It is with regret that the RNLI is required to close all Lifeboats MasterCard accounts after more than 20 successful years.

Since its introduction, the Lifeboats MasterCard has generated over £1M in charitable...

The RNLI’s naval engineers are developing a new class of all-weather lifeboat, currently codenamed FCB2 (fast carriage boat 2). The FCB2 will replace the Mersey class lifeboat, and the first is expected on station in 2013.

DECEMBER 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

At 9.40 at night the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel off Middleton, and at ten o’clock the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a strong, northerly wind with a...

Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...