LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...

By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.

THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.

The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...

BOATING is rapidly growing in popularity.

Thousands have gone afloat for the first time this year. Doubtless next year thousands more will be doing likewise. In all the excitement of selecting and buying a craft of one kind...

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• THERE HAVE BEEN many lifeboat histories produced by Jeff Morris in recent years, all of which have been meticulously researched and illustrated.

The Story of the Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats is no exception. He traces...

On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...

etter All letters featured here relate to the Inshore Lifeboat Centre (ILC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where all RNLI inshore lifeboats are built and maintained, as featured in the winter 2005/06 issue of the Lifeboat Our cover features...

Harvesting the fruit of the sea has been a way of life since the first hunter–gatherers left their footprints in the muds of time – and it’s close to the heart of the RNLI too

The earliest of...