LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...

Nearly saved . . . by a motor lifeboat I was interested in the feature 'Saved by a motor lifeboat', which appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of The Lifeboat.

There is an interesting story pertaining to this film - I...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ST. DAVID'S APRIL 25TH - 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At ten in theevening a message was received from the coastguard, that a tank landing craft was in distress one mile southsouth- east of St. Ann’s Head....

IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.

In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...

THIS year is the centenary of the death of Lionel Lukin, whose name will always be remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the life-boat. He was a fashionable and successful coach builder in London, and Master of the Worshipful...

At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th January the life-boat watchman reported a vessel ashore near the harbour. A whole N.W. by N. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with Mr. Moncas, the branch secretary, on board, put...

When cargo ship Red Duchess’s engines failed in severe gales her crew were helpless to stop her drifting towards the rocky shore of the Isle of Rum …

Tuesday 2 November 2010 was what’s known...

On a popular Devon beach, unseasonably warm weather tempted people into the delights of the surf – and the dangers of the rip current …

While many families spent the afternoon carving Halloween pumpkins on 31 October 2015,...