LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?

Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...

Lifeboats on the Thames The RNLI is to provide lifeboat cover for a new search and rescue service for the river Thames. Three lifeboat stations will be established, which will be the first lifeboat stations to specifically cover a river...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 50 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1934 63,721 A Stormy Passage.

By COMMANDER J. M. UPTON,...

Eight-hour service for Lerwick's Arun in appalling conditions Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian spent nearly eight hours at sea in hurricane-force winds and huge seas on 12 December 1990 in what proved to be a tragically...

Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...

No less than 74 people took to the stage to accept honorary awards at the afternoon ceremony. ‘They all give generously of their time – some as station personnel, others as officials and members of branches and guilds,’ said Paul...

SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

patron—ibis Most ©racious fl&ajestg tbe Chairman— COLONEL SIR FITZROY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P.

Deputy Chairman— SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.H.G...

Bather in difficulty HUMBER COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station at 1634 on Friday August 19, 1983, that a bather was in difficulty at Theddlethorpe, about three miles to the north of the station....