LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stuart Popham has been appointed as the RNLI’s new Vice-Chair. ‘I’m honoured to be given such a fantastic opportunity – to be Vice-Chair for such an amazing charity and important lifesaving service,’ says Stuart, who has been on the RNLI...

Otra readers, and indeed the public in general, are aware of the complete means that exist around the shores of these islands for effecting communication with stranded and wrecked vessels, in the shape of life- boats, and the rocket and...

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When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...

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Wick, Caithness-shire. At 7.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1961, a message was received that a vessel was on fire off Duncansby Head. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a slight sea, and it was almost low water. At eight...

DECEMBER 21ST. - SWANAGE, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 10.27 in the morning the Swanage coastguard telephoned that the naval officer in charge at Poole wished the Swanage life-boat to go to the help of an escort vessel which had capsized three...

IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...

THE R.N.L.I., as a result of the Fraserburgh inquiry, has been widely discussed in the press and debated on television. Many letters have been received at headquarters, including a large number following the Public Relation Officer's...