LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COVER PICTURE by Cumbrian Newspapers HRH The Duchess of Kent aboard Workington's Tyne class lifeboat during her visit to Cumbria. During the Duchess's visit she named Silloth's new Atlantic 75 and opened two new... - View image in PDF

An ElectroMotion mobility vehicle " i s proven to make life better k That's the conclusive result of our recent survey of 1,000 users, who were asked for their views on how their vehicles had affected and changed their...

The latest Lottery has brought in just short of £1MfortheRNLI! After the winter 2005 income of almost £750,000, itself a record, the spring 2006 Lifeboat Lottery bettered all expectations with an amazing £976,000. This...

ONCE AGAIN, to look back at the Boat Show is to look back on eleven happy and successful days. With the help of volunteer Shoreline members on the RNLI stand and of our friends at the Midland Bank stand, we enrolled 528 new members and a...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

In the first of the two following tables are the twenty Branches which have the largest total contributions for 1924.

The second table gives simply a selection of Branches from different parts of the country, which have a...

Z-BOATS to the rescue.

Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being inherently buoyant, it...

Below: A reconstruction of the rescue for television Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF