LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...

On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Ramsey - Mersey 12-14 (ON 1171) Ann and James Ritchie on 12 July 1991.

North Sunderland - Mersey 12-16 (ON 1173) Grace Darling on...

On the 9th November, while this Lifeboat was on her way to London, another boat-having been placed on the station in her stead, she was signalled by the Tongue light vessel, and was informed that they had on board the crew of the wrecked...

Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.

'Fire!...

Hurricane force 12 STORM FORCE WINDS, gusting to hurricane force 12 from the west south west, were sweeping the west coast of Scotland on the morning of Thursday March 20, 1986, when the Troon pilot heard over his radio that the fishing...

While on holiday on the Isle of Wight last summer, Albert the Irish Wolfhound collected nearly £50 for Yarmouth lifeboat.

Owner Mary Knight took him along to the station's open day and not many people were able to... - View image in PDF

SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...

2002 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Another busy year for the RNLI saw crews answer 6,882 calls and rescue 6,918 people.

Education and safety work is starting to show results and successful trial schemes...