LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

For 190 years the RNLI has faced the challenge of being ready for anything – whether it’s one person who needs our help, 30, or even 85 – as you will read in this magazine’s remarkable rescue stories.

To be ready for...

NEWSPOINT What would Sir William Hillary have thought about the day when Rye Harbour lifeboat rescued 29 children and adults from inflatable toys on a hot summer's day earlier this year (see Lifeboat Services)? When he founded the RNLI...

Blue Peter 7 at Littlehampton Littlehampton's new Blue Peterfunded lifeboat Blue Peter 1 has been named and welcomed into the RNLI fleet at a special ceremony of dedication in October. This was a double celebration, as the new...

RSPCA award ON WEDNESDAY AugUSt 12, 1981, Hlinstanton's D class inflatable lifeboat was called to a speedboat which, unoccupied except for a dog, was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach. The man who had been driving...

TO MARK the Royal Wedding in July telegram of congratulations was sent to HRH The Prince of Wales on behalf of the RNLI by its chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'The Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff of the...

October 1996 Mrs Peggy Mabe, president of Fishguard and Goodwick ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Mabe was a founder member of the guild in 1961 and held the office of treasurer during her time on the committee, becoming president in 1989. She was...

OCTOBER 1997 William John Arthur, former Falmouth mechanic. Mr Arthur's RNLI service spanned over 43 years - 20 years as a crew member on the Cadgwith rowing and sailing lifeboat, 12 years as mechanic at Cadgwith (at the outbreak of WW2)...

A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...