LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...

ON 15th April, 1909, a flotilla of three Life-boats, in two of which motor engines had been installed, were despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION from the London Docks en route by sea for Thurso...

IT is only to be expected that the sub- ject of the erosion of the coast, which in other words means the encroachment of the sea, should be one of considerable interest to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The nature of Life- boat...

Long night at sea in poor visibility Alderney South West Division Alderney's Waveney class lifeboatLoww Marches! of Round Table spent seven hours at sea on the night of 8/9 July attending four separate calls in poor visibility, which was...

Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...

PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...

Jan. 9.—Voted the Silver Medal to FREDK. CHARLES HICKS, who by swimming saved, at imminent risk of his own life, the Captain of the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who had been washed on to the Helwether rook after the vessel was...

The sea stale during the joint service to Torridge Warrior can be judged from this photograph of the casualty under tow. When her sampsom post carried away Ilfracombe's lifeboat took up the tow from the fishing vessel's quarter posts... - View image in PDF