LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Around and about the RNLI Youngest crew member? Jonathan Foster achieved a long-held ambition when he joined the crew of Staithes lifeboat - the Atlantic 21 Ellis Sinclair-on his 17th birthday .

Clem James, station honorary...

Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.

A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...

Selflessness

We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...

Thursday, 2nd Dec., 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

Four saved from MFV among rocks in hurricane-force gustsCoxswain David Chant of the St Davids lifeboat, Dyfed, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of four fishermen in severe gales on 26...

Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).

DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...

AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...

A Topping idea...

It is not often that one sees the director of the RNLI wearing a hard-hat, laying concrete, sporting a sprig of yew tree and then supping a glass of ale - especially when perched on the top of a...