LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Four years in the making, the RNLI’s new lifejackets are a milestone in maritime innovation

A lifejacket is the one item of personal protective equipment (PPE) that our crews must wear: their...

Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...

ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which the crew, and courageous determination on the part of them all, could have had been sheltering in Fishguard i successfully brought the Life-boat, Harbour, left for...

ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which had been sheltering in Fishguard Harbour, left for Rotterdam. During the night the wind freshened until it was blowing a moderate gale from N. W., and she was compelled...

DECEMBER 21ST. - SWANAGE, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 10.27 in the morning the Swanage coastguard telephoned that the naval officer in charge at Poole wished the Swanage life-boat to go to the help of an escort vessel which had capsized three...

Left: RNLI senior driver George Dadds makes loading an Atlantic 21 look far too easy as he slips it on to the bed of his Mercedes. The truck is used mainly for long-haul work to Scotland and Ireland.. - View image in PDF

THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...

JANUARY 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. A quarter of an hour after midnight a message came from Dover that two motor boats were aground near the East Goodwins, 2 1/4 miles from the No. 2 Buoy. The motor lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service...