LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI's latest lifeboat prototypes have been on trials around the coast as part of their evaluation and development.. - View image in PDF

Bravery endures Thank you for the autumn issue of the magazine.

The article on Henry Shrimp Davies was of great interest to me: my brother was a crew member of the SS English Trader on that fateful night and at the age of...

FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...

Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...

(Below) The lifeboat depot maintains a supply and repair service for lifeboats and gives a 24-hour service for the supply of items required at stations in emergencies.. - View image in PDF

WHEN, in March, 1920, I paid my first visit to the Isle of Man, I did so for a double reason. I wanted to see all the Isle of Man Stations and to have the advantage of meeting the Honorary Secretaries and Committees. But the main object in...

and presentation of awards FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, MAY 21A BRIGHT, sunny morning; friends from all parts of Britain and Ireland gathering on the South Bank of the Thames ready for the annual general meeting and presentation of awards in this...

The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?

It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing  across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...