LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.

of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...

Lyme Regis.

The Annual Meeting of the Branch was held on the 27th October, Dr. H. J.

Cooper, the Chairman of the Committee, being in the chair. The Annual Report for the year ending the 30th September last...

Thanks to Alderney...

The RNLI has always been our favourite charity. During a Channel crossing on 19 June in our 29ft yacht we had good reason to be grateful for the support we and countless others have given the...

The 60th anniversary of one of the RNLI’s most tragic days was marked at Arbroath in October.

Six crewmen died when the lifeboat Robert Lindsay was struck by huge waves close to the harbour and capsized on 27 October 1953....

The Trent class lifeboat is designed to lie afloat either at deep water moorings or at a berth.. - View image in PDF

Our flood rescue team volunteers will travel anywhere in the world to prevent tragedies in flood disasters – but how do you train for lifesaving in such extreme conditions?

With a heave and an...

Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...

A SHRIEKING sky and a wind-torn sea— Steadily lads I And sheltered under the Life-boat's lee— Steadily lads! Storm-marked faces and shaggy hair, Jackets of rusty blue, Men who will do and will not despair— Men of the Life-boat...