LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test

The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...

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Most of us, at some time or other, have enjoyed the experience of walking along a coastal path or beach.

To find out the hazards, the RNLI's website discussion forum, Waves, asked experts from all aspects of walking for...

Persons rescued from shipwreck.

Fishing cobles of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety.

Sailing barge Melissa, of London. Ramsgate motor life-boat saved barge a n d...

THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...

ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.

This time it is a collision between...

THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...

William Adams, Coxswain of the North Deal Life-boat, died on 23rd October last, in his seventy-sixth year. Probably no Life-boat Coxswain was better known to the public, and few have had a more dis- tinguished career. Born on 5th April, 1851...