LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..

The RNLI Sales mail order gift catalogue is back just in time for Christmas! Packed full of gift ideas, cards, hampers and decorative touches, you can prepare for the season ahead from the comfort of your home, while helping save lives at...

Many of the RNLI’s 19th-century barometers are still in perfect working order today. Malcolm Gray MBE, former Coxswain of St David’s lifeboat, records changes in theirs every morning before raising the RNLI flag - View image in PDF

OCTOBER 24TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. A Whitley bomber had come down, but two of her crew were rescued from the shore and a search for the others was unsuccessful. - Rewards, £15 13s..

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.—At about 10.15 P.M. on the 4th October, 1938, a message was received from Bayble Island that a small rowing boat, with five young men on board, had put off to some trawlers which were anchored close inshore, and had...

North East A Tyneside lifeboat appeal has been launched in the North East under the patronage of Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland to contribute towards the cost of the 52ft Arun lifeboat which has recently gone on station...

WHEN OTHERS SEEK SHELTER The first Trent Class lifeboat 'RNLB The Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma' by Christopher Southcombe The original painting, which now hangs at Broadlands, was presented by the artist to the Countess...

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...