LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At midday on 2 January 2002, RNLI lifeboats became operational on the River Thames. For the first time, the capital has a 24-hour dedicated rapid response service on its river. There are four lifeboat stations, at Gravesend, Tower Pier,...

AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...

Since their introduction in 2006, the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat sea safety officers (LSSOs) around the UK and RoI have been saving lives through prevention – giving demonstrations and performing SEA Checks (like the one pictured...

AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...

THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 25th January, the Life-boat Leicester went off to the barque William Naizby, of London, which vessel had parted both her chains in a heavy squall, and had afterwards come into collision with the steamer Romeo, of...

DECEMBER MEETING, LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. About 5.30 in the morning of the 30th July, 1941, a motor fishing vessel at sea, some four miles N.W. by N. from Lossiemouth, heard shouts for help, and cruising round picked up two airmen from a...

OCTOBER 10TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.50 in the morning the Southend coastguard reported a naval vessel aground near Kildonan Point. The naval authorities said that a tug and a frigate were going to her help, but at 11.10 they...