LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...

On the 12th June the brig Ann, of Blyth, parted her cables in a S.E. gale, in Alnmouth Bay, and was driven ashore. The small four-oared self-righting life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly launched in a heavy...

The Institution is re-analysing its records to investigate the causes of loss of life at sea. Some interesting facts are emerging.The RNLI exists for one simple reason - to save lives at sea. In the pursuit of that seemingly simple goal it...

A SPECIAL service was held in Liverpool Cathedral on 26th November, 1933, at which some 200 people were present, in remembrance of those who, by their generosity and self-sacrifice, had brought into being the life-boat...

Engine room flooded THE COXSWAIN of Wells lifeboat was informed by HM Coastguard at 1412 on Friday November 20, 1981, that there was a possible casualty 2Vi miles north of Brancaster, and the coxswain immediately passed on to the station...

Crew member swims through heavy surf and scales cliff to survivor Simon Chadwick, a member of Bude lifeboat crew, has received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Institution following his first service call in the station's D...

Two saved from yacht in onshore severe galeAservice by Shoreham's Tyne class lifeboat in June 1999 has earned her coxswain Peter Huxtable the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum.

The service was carried out in...

New lifeboat and station in Burnham-on-Sea It was a sunny day of double celebration in Burnham-on-Sea when a new lifeboat station was opened and a new lifeboat handed over.

The Atlantic 75 lifeboat serving the Somerset town...