LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...

HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...

Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....

THURSDAY, 5th January, 1882.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

He expressed his high appreciation of the honour the Committee had conferred on him in electing him Deputy-Chairman of the...

The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 521 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...

Left: Front row l-r: Padraig Rath, Sean Reilly, Noel Sharkey Middle row l-r: Ronan Faulkner, Barry Faulkner, Lisa Levins, V Gerald Sharkey • Back: James Byrne i. - View image in PDF

Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...