LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jon Jones visits Blackpool's new all-singing, all-dancing lifeboat station and gets thoroughly rained on in the process..

Blackpool, with its Pleasure Beach, Illuminations and Golden Mile of amusements, night clubs,...

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ON MAY 8, 1975, at the RNLI annual meeting held in the Royal Festival Hall, London, a cheque for £91,363.72 was handed over by four young members of The Scout Association (see page 21) to cover funds raised for the lifeboat service...

ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.

This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...

THE LIFEBOAT ORGANISATIONS of the world are to a large extent concentrated in Europe. Taking the wider aspect of general sea rescue, outside Europe it is mainly in the hands of the naval services or, as in the United States and Canada, an...

£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...

On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF

Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...