LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...

JANUARY 26TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.

A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed off The Manacles, and the life-boat got away in three minutes, but she found nothing. - Rewards, £11 14s. 3d..

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IN the 19th Number of this Journal we replied to the various theoretical objections that had been advanced against the selfrighting principle, and demonstrated that the same means which were employed to produce that effect contributed to the...

When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers

‘With the weather like it...

COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.

He came to the Institution...

The Roval Tav Yacht Club Dundee wax the venue for the Bell's Charily Bottle smash in aid of the RNLI. The bottle, held bv David Bruce of Bell's Scotch Whisky, was smashed open bv Hugh Scott (second coxswain), watched by Stuart... - View image in PDF

'A YEAR of intense activity and gratifying success for the lifeboat service" is the phrase used in the RNLI's report to describe the happenings in 1972. The facts certainly justify this. The total number of lives saved, which is...