LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Capsize THE DAY OF TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1986, dawned at Brighton with gale force winds blowing from the south south west, gusting to force 9 and skies overcast with a slight drizzle. Very heavy seas were running and waves up to 15 feet in...

It is a relief to be writing my annual message for The Lifeboat as a welcome alternative to sending letters to the editors of the Sunday Telegraph and Private Eye! Many of you will have read the articles in those publications and will share...

The RNLI’s many boathouses are often adapted through their lifetimes to meet changing operational needs but sometimes they must be vacated entirely – and then enter a whole new existence

If walls could speak, those of old...

ARDROSSAN, N.B.—This life-boat establishment, which was one organised-some years since by a local society, has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION through the kind co-operation of G. B. M. BEATSON, Esq., late...

As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?

When a warm afternoon turned to cool...

Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.

It is, as usual, a...

SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...

CAISTER, NORFOLK. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION replaced, in October last, its life-boat on this station by a new boat, the old one having become thoroughly worn out, and unfit for further service. The latter life-boat has rendered...