LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI Forever by the Sea funds are a positive and powerful way to honour the life of someone special who has passed away. By setting up a fund in the name of your loved one, you can give practical support for courageous volunteer lifeboat...

As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...

On the night of the 17th September, 1859, the Prussian brig iMcinde, of Metnel, ran ashove off Mis- ner Coastguard Station on the Suffolk coast.

Intelligence of the same was immediately conveyed to Southwold, with the...

FEBRUARY 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON.

ESSEX. At about 7.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that information had been received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel that a vessel to the W.N.W. was sounding S.O.S. on her siren. A...

NOVEMBER 2lST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 2.45 P.M. the naval base reported that two small fishing boats were in distress just outside the harbour, and at 3.5 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A strong S.E....

AUTUMN 2018 RESULTS

Congratulations to Mr K Cooper from Norfolk who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2nd PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs D Upfold,...

Capturing the drama Sir - The dramatic photograph of the Portrush lifeboat on page 127 of the Summer issue of the journal must have potential for advertising the RNLI's work and the robust skill and courage of the crews. Why not use it...

• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.

This book...