LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...

Overseas greetings RNLI Deputy Director, Ray Kipling, recently received a letter and some photographs from Fernando Andrade, secretary of the Uruguayan lifeboat service ADES. The picture above shows the Montevideo station lifeboat ADES 14,...

Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...

An off-duty RNLI lifeguard was in the right place at the right time when two surfers were trapped in a perilous position on St Ouen’s Beach, Jersey

Ed Stevens was leaving the car park at St...

What can happen in 10 minutes? For coastal lifeboat stations, that can be the time needed for dedicated volunteers to drop whatever they’re doing, form a crew and launch. For those at Tower Lifeboat Station, it’s a different...