LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink....

Last Summer, RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crews saved the lives of 82 children and teenagers – but they can’t prevent every drowning, as mum-of-two Bethany Hope reports

Tragedy hit the...

The start of last year's Sheffield Marathon which raised, mainly through the sponsorship of individual runners, a remarkable £24,000 for the RNLI. It is an annual event with some 6,000 entrants and Sheffield branch, together with... - View image in PDF

Name change response In the Spring issue we posed the question, 'What's in a name?' and invited members to think up alternative names for Shoreline.

The response was most encouraging, with the editor's...

THE unfortunate accident which occurred to the Calais mail-packet Prince Frederick William, in February last, will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers, when the upsetting of one of the Calais life-boats, which had proceeded to the...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 31 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 25, July 18, 20, 28, 29 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 18, 20, 24, August 1,6 (twice), 12 (twice), 18 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class...

As the evening approached at Aberavon Beach on the south Wales coast, the RNLI lifeguard team were packing up their kit – but their work was not over for the day …

Sun and sand had attracted...

Miss TAYLOR, of Hauxley, has been presented with the Coxswain's Certificate of Service which would have been awarded to her late father, GEORGE TAYLOR, Coxswain at Hauxley for twenty years, on his retirement, had he not, unfortunately,...