LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Looking forward to the Olympics? We are, and we’re lucky enough to be involved in a number of ways.

Lifeboat crews will provide additional safety cover during the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events off the Dorset coast,...

(above) Richard Perks, inspector of lifeboats for the East Division was in command for the passage to Aldeburgh from the training centre at Poole.. - View image in PDF

The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...

For the RNLI, going ‘green’ is not about fl aunting ecoworthiness.

There are sound economic and common-sense principles behind the trial of the PowerEd, a combination mini wind turbine, solar panel and weather sensor... - View image in PDF

RescUe Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity....

Congratulations to the RNLI volunteers and staff who were recognised in this year’s New Year
Honours, for their contribution to saving lives at sea. MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire):
Richard Spindler a...

HM COASTGUARD are to move their headquarters from London to Poole following the move already made by the RNLI. A new central search and rescue information room will be established at the new Coastguard headquarters. These moves were...

Lifeboat car? In late September when driving from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, I passed a Triumph saloon car towing a caravan, the car bearing the registration RNL 1 which was condensed to read RNLI. The car also bore an RNLI flag on the...