LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A picture paints a thousand words Getting timely and dramatic images of the lifeboat service to the media is crucial to raising awareness. The RNLI is now investing in new cameras at selected lifeboat stations to bring the heroic work of the...

MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...

A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...

Bridlington: On Saturday September 26, in east-south-easterly gales gusting to strong gale, force 9, and very rough seas the 37ft Oakley relief lifeboat Mary Joicey. on temporary duly at Bridlington, escorted five trawlers safely into... - View image in PDF

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...

(Below) Ken Voice, coxswain of Shoreham lifeboat, received a cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton, chief ranger of the Court Sussex Elm, Independent Order of Foresters. The money was raised by court members during... - View image in PDF

Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond called into Queensferry Lifeboat Station on 22 June. He was shown around the station, introduced to the crew and presented with a framed photo of Queensferry’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Donald and Ethel Macrae...