LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thirty odd years ago it was my duty and my privilege to act as escort to Sir Godfrey Baring, K.B.E., then Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, on his frequent visits to the North West District and, at a later period, to...

Partners at the Show More than 10,000 people queued at the RNLI stand at the Southampton Boat Show in September 2004. They were able to see the technology used to save lives at sea on a Severn class lifeboat.

Two of the...

THE COMPETITION for the Renault STL car is still progressing well. The draw will be made at the Motor Fair at Earls Court on October 28 and the lucky winner will be published in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Your response has been most...

Z-BOATS to the rescue.

Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being inherently buoyant, it...

RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat funded by our Shoreline members which was stationed at Blyth from 1979 until last year, has now been transferred to Arbroath, on the east coast of Scotland; she was placed on service at...

We’re delighted to announce that our next all-weather lifeboat class, due on station in 2013, will be called the Shannon. We’ve been naming lifeboats after rivers or stretches of water for 45 years, but this is the first time the name of an...

IN an article dealing with the Board of Trade returns of the shipping disasters during the year ended 30th June, 1903, a newspaper, whilst showing much appreciation of the work done by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION, and in a...

High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...