LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In 2002 the RNLI operated 43 Beach Rescue units and Beach Rescue lifeguards saved 22 lives. Across the South West they dealt with 867 major incidents. These figures are impressive, but statistics don't tell the whole story. To find out...

On the 31st December, at 3 P.M., the Life-boat Christopher Brown was launched during a S.W. gale, and proceeded to the smack Crane, of Beau- inariSj which vessel was at anchor in a dangerous position with a signal of dis- tress flying. The...

THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...

DIVE IN FOR A SPLASHING GREAT TIME RNLI supporters are usually too concerned with events on the sea's surface to wonder about whotjfalit be happening down below the waves.

Exploring the magical world fTenwnh the surface...

ON Friday evening, the 29th of November, 1830, the St. George, a first-class steamer, commanded by Lieut. TUDOR, R.N., arrived at Douglas, Isle of Man, with the mail from Liverpool, and anchored in the bay. The night was stormy, with heavy...

The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new... - View image in PDF

A stitch in time...

could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...

The schooner Advance, of Plymouth, when bound from Hull to Teignmouth with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the Scroby Sands on the 23rd February. Immediately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent...