LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Abbs life-boat station still holds the record for the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats. This was achieved by the previous life-boat W. Ross Macanhur of Glasgow when she stood by the Swiss cargo ship Nyon for 11...

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 14 November 1988, show that so far in 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats had been launched 3,387 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,099 lives had been saved (an average of...

Busy first year for Thames lifeboats Thames lifeboats were called out over 800 times during their first year of service. This is almost three times as many as estimated prior to setting up the service on 1 January 2002. Callouts range from...

Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.

Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...

St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly.—At about 9.30 A.M. on the 22nd December, 1938, it was learned that a dredger was in difficulties near the Spanish Ledges and wanted a pilot. A N.E. gale was blowing, with sleet and snow showers, and the sea...

The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 16th April, 1938, the local motor boat Sirius put out from Forth Clais with seventeen people on board, for a trip to Grasholme. They did not return when expected, and anxiety was felt for...