LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CHILLED SURVIVORS AFTER a white flashing light had been seen off Margate, Kent, at 12.54 a.m. on 4th October, 1971, the life-boat North Foreland was launched.

After travelling a mile and a half towards the flashing light...

Twenty-four crews from guide and scout groups in Northampton took part in a rowing relay along the River Nenefrom Northampton to Peterborough, a distance of 60.3 miles, with 22 locks to negotiate. The first crew (above) were sent on their... - View image in PDF

They weren’t the most dramatic conditions in terms of waves but the current under the pier is dangerous. My training and experience on the RWC helped so much – it was about using enough power to reach the casualty but not so much that I put... - View image in PDF

WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...

IT is only natural in this and other countries that the humane desire to improve the means for saving life from shipwreck should appeal to and occupy the minds of men -with a turn for invention or mechanically...

In Weymouth, Dorset, on 30 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards saved an elderly male who had collapsed face down in the water.

Discovering the man wasn't breathing and had no pulse, they inserted an airway, started...

COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...

Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat needed help ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- boat was not launched immediately as all the local...