LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To become a fully competent lifesaver, crew members need to develop a wide range of skills. The RNLI has developed a Competence Based Training system that helps crew members acquire these skills and maintain them through lifeboat station...

FEBRUARY 4TH . - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E...

More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay mayor Mrs Heather Buckpitt. 18/08/02. - View image in PDF

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, during a dense fog, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Dawlish, of London, that she was ashore at North Bishop, At one o'...

A collection box filled by patrons and staff of The Masons Arms pub in Cilgerran, Wales has been dubbed 'top box' by Cardigan branch - every three to four weeks the box secretary is on standby for a call to the... - View image in PDF

Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port was awarded the gold medal for the service to Bonita on December 13, 1981: he first joined St Peter Port lifeboat crew in 1975, becoming second coxswain in 1980 and coxswain in 1981 (photograph by... - View image in PDF

The Institution has received a gift of £25 from the ship's fund of the auxiliary cruiser "H.M.S. Jervis Bay," which was sunk in November, 1940, when very gallantly defending a convoy of British ships from a powerful German...

COXSWAIN THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, had the unusual distinction of being awarded the silver medal and clasp as well as the bronze medal. At the end of January 1937 Aberdeen experienced twelve days of gales which were as bad as any in...