LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stranded in cave THREE CLIFF CLIMBERS, missing west of Anvil Point, were reported to Swanage lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1733 on Saturday November 29, 1980; the station's 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat J. Reginald Corah, was launched...

The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...

For generations, people have been tombstoning off cliffs. On 22 July last year, five boys ignored warnings and jumped into treacherous waters

Towards the end of a long day’s work on Portreath Beach, Cornwall, Senior...

He owns a string of top eateries in London – so what is it that keeps restaurateur, chef and food writer Mark Hix coming back to the seaside?

There’s a force 7 off the Dorset coast, and...

(Continued from page 215.) THERE remains to be considered the distribution of lights on a coast and the positions in which they should be placed.

It will be readily conceived that, important as it is to produce a brilliant...

LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...

One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...

A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...