LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Do you know the three big targets we’re working towards as a lifesaving charity? As our Chairman Charles Hunter-Pease explained at our AGM in May, we aim to bring our entire all-weather lifeboat fleet up to a speed of 25 knots by 2019,...

A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...

Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.

Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...

Lt Cdr Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1989 - and forward to a new decade J.t is difficult to believe that a whole year has passed since my last message in the journal. The old adage of time passing ever more quickly as the...

For the past two years, Mrs Patricia Duncan has held hunter trials in her garden in aid of the RNLI. Her daughter and gardener made the jumps—last year they even achieved a water jump, as well as different shapes and styles through the woods...

'THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT' is getting off to an excellent start, if the Central Appeals Committee's projects are anything to go by—although it was a great disappointment that owing to the fuel crisis, the Midnight Matinee at the...

The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...