LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ST. DAVID’S FEBRUARY 28TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 9.20 in the evening the police telephoned to the life-boat station that a man was trapped somewhere up the cliffs near Llanunwas, Solva. The honorary...

When a fisherman fell into a fast ebbing tide, who would hear his cries for help – and what could be done to save him?

After a morning’s shrimp fishing on 29 October 2013, one of Achill’s...

IT is now two years since, in conjunction with other plans, we reviewed this novel and ingenious mode of lowering boats, and we then emphatically declared our opinion as to its value, and expressed our hope that it might meet with that...

HAVING in our last number described the buildings and floating vessels from which beacon lights are exhibited, we have now to give some account of the nature and history of the lights themselves.

At a very remote period,...

ON the 4th May, 1908, the Prince of Wales, who is the President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and takes the greatest interest in its work and welfare, graciously commanded Mr. William Owen, the Coxswain- Superintendent of the...

Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, believed that sea rescue was ‘a cause which extends from the palace to the cottage ... and which addresses itself with equal force to all the best feelings of every class in the state.’ So began our... - View image in PDF

NOVEMBER 12-13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and many vessels, held up by the gale, were in danger to the windward of Southend pier. The motor lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No....

IT will be in the memory of our readers that the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued a special appeal last year for funds and increased permanent support. They pointed out that, while each year the efficiency of...