LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

How would the occupants of a yacht survive when it sank within seconds at the mouth of the Thames? Anne Millman finds out

On the overcast but cold morning of 17 February, Thames Coastguard at Waltonon- the-Naze heard an...

The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?

It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing  across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...

In the first thirty-three months of war life-boats have rescued 4754 lives. They have rescued more lives in these thirty-three months of war than in the last thirteen years of peace..

The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place...

St. Marks Church at Akyab, Burma, has just been reopened, and one of the first things that it has done is to send a gift of 69 tupees to the Institution..

This photograph captures the moment that our Kinsale and Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat volunteers saved 30 people from a sinking training vessel off the Cork coast

Both lifeboat crews were...

CAHORE, IRELAND.—A branch of the Na- tional Life-boat Institution has been founded at Cahore, on the coast of Wexford, Ireland.

The Blackwater Bank, extending for many miles along this part of the coast, has been from time...

PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...