LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

UPKinsale lifeboat crew tackled their biggest casualty on 2 February when the relief B class Walters Lifeboat brought in the 35-tonne Paulona. The 12m fi shing vessel was heading for Baltimore when the engine’s temperature started to rise...

James Vaughan is the RNLI’s new Corporate Services Director, taking over from Ian Ventham who retired in August after 18 years with the charity. Promoted internally from Head of Fundraising and Communications Services, James is now...

On the 16th December, 1939, the Torbay life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the motor schooner Henrietta, of Truro.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM H. H. MOGRIDGE was awarded a clasp to his silver medal.

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The RNLI’s historic archive has been recognised by UNESCO. Our founding documents, which date back to 1823, will become one of just 50 listed in the UK as part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme UK Register, preserving the world’s...

As a reader of the Lifeboat magazine, when you book a self-catering holiday with cottages4you, you get a 5% discount and the company gives at least 5% of the purchase price to the RNLI.

Now, you can win £300 off the...

Seaham, Co. Durham.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1957, information was received- that the fishing boat Emily, of Sunderfand, with a-crewlof two, had been out,fl8h-iing since six o'clock in the morning and had not returned....

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a seriously injured man from the Skellig's Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' tender Valonia had already made...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Worthing beach inspector had reported a small yacht apparently in trouble off Splash Point, Lancing.

The...