LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...

Enjoyable sail turns into near disaster Windsurfer Christopher Long was out enjoying a brisk sail last September when gear failure disabled his board and he spent three hours in the water. When Eastbourne's inshore lifeboat picked him up...

Lottery To comply with Gaming Act requirements it was necessary to draw the 36th national lottery outside Poole headquarters for the very first time. The reason for this was that the date for the draw, January 31, fell on a Saturday. It did...

News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a motor vessel, which was.

towing a fifty-feet yacht, was thought to have ropes entangled in...

A SERIES of unusual long weekends for lovers of ships, lifeboats and the sea are to be held in St Ives, Cornwall.

Mike and Jill Elleston, who own the tiny Skidden House Hotel, have organised two weekends in February and...

Coming Events Poole lifeboat, Augustine Courtauld, will be named by Lady Rayner on May 7.

Annual General Meeting, Royal Festival Hall, May 8. The Presidential address will be made by HRH The Duke of Kent, who will also...

Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.

The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking...