LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Daniel L Gibson A £2M Severn class lifeboat was officially named at Hull Marina on Thursday, 24 July 2003.

The cost of the lifeboat, which is now part of the relief fleet, was met by a substantial bequest from the...

'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...

More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?

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As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...

Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...

Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...

With the traditional double-ended lifeboat now replaced by fast lifeboats at every one of the Institution's stations RNLI Naval Architect Keith Thatcher takes a look at two of the classes which dominated the Institution's...