LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Training simulatorThe future of training With lives at risk at sea, the RNLI takes its training very seriously, but serious training doesn't have to be dull or old-fashionedImagine you're out on a shout in storm force conditions....

THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.

In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...

JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

Flag days have been beating all records in this 'Year of the Lifeboat'.

Here are just a few results: On London lifeboat day, March 19, £69,355 was collected, nearly £9,000 more than in 1973. For the flag...

There are available from the RNLI Dublin office (10 Merrion Square, Dublin 2) First Day Covers of the following Irish Post Office stamps: Official RNLI cover RNLI commemorative 5p stamp: 50p.

Special cover, with RNLI...

Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.

Another interesting set...

With deep regret It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.

Cdr Swann first joined the...

Charles Dixon and the
Golden Age of Marine
Painting

by Stuart Boyd
Review by Carol Waterkeyn

Charles Dixon was one of the greatest maritime artists, living from 1872 to...