LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• 'In the lifeboat service people are all important.' With this, the opening sentence of his foreword, Patrick Howarth sets the pattern of his latest and most intriguing book on the RNLI, Lifeboats and Lifeboat People (White Lion...

A Year of Conspicuous Services.

THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...

THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...

"Peace hath her Victories No less renown'd than War."

THUS wrote the great poet of a war which he deemed, as we do our mighty conflict of to-day, one of Liberty against Tyranny, of the oppressed against...

Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...

READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...

Elizabeth Ann, Falmouth EXACTLY AT 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 10, two RNAS Culdrose helicopters streaming RNLI flags flew past the Customs House Quay, Falmouth, thus raising the curtain on the first of the 1980 lifeboat naming...

In its 140th year of saving lives at sea, New Brighton lifeboat station saw a new arrival in October 2004. The inshore rescue hovercraft, to be named Hurley Spirit, will play a vital role in the RNLI's lifesaving operations on the...