LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE adventures of life-boats after they pass out of the service have, from time to time, been recorded in this journal.1 Some go far afield. One became a launch on a South African river. An- other, a steam life-boat, was sent some years ago...

Where is your hat?! I have been an RNLI Shoreline member for around 24 years.

I joined after chatting to a lifeboat crew member whilst on holiday in North Wales. He told me of an incident where a young boy had got into...

THE Institution is holding a competition for the best photograph of a life-boat, a life-boat station, or an actual rescue.

The competition is open to members of life-boat crews, branch members and officials, and members of...

• Published to coincide with the Institution's 150th Anniversary, The Life-boat Service by Oliver Warner (Cassell, London, £4.50) is the authoritative account of the RNLI. Mr Warner has had access to all of its papers, and has...

Nov. 23RD. - MARGATE, KENT. A message had been received from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking four miles east of the Tongue Light-vessel. The life-boat was launched at 4.15 P.M. When she reached the position given she could see a...

Remarkable advances in technology mean that sailors are no longer isolated from the rest of the world while at sea

Throughout history sailors would have to go many months without news from home...

Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...

FLEETWOOD.—In accordance with the wishes of the Life-boat men, the Life-boat which is kept moored afloat at Fleetwood has been replaced by a new sailing boat, which is a modification of the large one designed in 1887 for the South- port...