LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The service by St Helier's Tyne class lifeboat to the high-speed ferry St Malo - reported in the Summer issue of The Lifeboat- has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum to her ex-coxswain, Robert...

From left are Cleethorpes Lifeboat Operations Manager Jack Barlow, Senior Helmsman Shaun Sonley, Senior Helmsman Gary Barlow, Tractor Driver Richard Clarfc, Crew Member Paul Spall and Crew Member Jamie King. (Also see page 43). - View image in PDF

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 509 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...

High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...

Lifeboatman put aboard yacht in gale force winds after skipper is taken ill The night-time rescue of two people aboard a yacht in gale force winds has earned Richard Hawkins, Coxswain/Mechanic of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat,...

By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.

[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...

Portush and Red Bay lifeboats were launched when the sail training vessel The Lord Rank ran aground off the coast of Co Antrim on 8 June.

There were six people onboard the 21m yacht – five radio DJs and the skipper. In a 4...