LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Selflessness

We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...

Floods hit Scottish caravan site Aberdeen's D class inshore lifeboat was towed more than eight miles behind the helmsman's car when a flash flood burst the banks of the River Dee and water up to 1 Oft deep engulfed a park containing...

IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...

EVERYTHING that concerns the moral welfare and improvement of the sailor is of primary importance to a Maritime Power, such as that of the British Empire. Her strength and her commercial prosperity are alike dependent on her strength at sea,...

The pull of the lifeboat Hannah Chittock tells how she came to join the RnLi ‘family’ When my husband Jon was a child, he and his friends would peer through the window of the old RnLi station in Lymington for a glimpse of the lifeboat and,...

Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...

IREI.ANDS LINKS with the RNLI are almost as old as the Institution itself and the tradition of lifesaving around its rugged coastline stretches back to the turn of the century.

Guarding the busy shipping lanes bringing...

During 1975 Dublin branch and ladies' guild achieved the fine result of £24,000. Of this amount £5,874 came from the lifeboat shop run by Mrs Montague Kavanagh and her helpers, and £4,198 was raised in a one-day spring...