LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By DENIS BUTLER (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.

Why I admire the Life-boatman.

WHEN we consider the higher qualities with which men are endowed, we find that we admire...

A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away

As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...

The father, chef, broadcaster, writer and campaigner on his marine passions

A lot of your work seems to be intertwined with the sea – why is that?
I’ve...

During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for

The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...

East Division Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board,...

Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...

Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...

THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 25th, 1933 - - - 63,502 The Regulations of the Institution.<...