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...

WE HOPE ALL SHORELINE MEMBERS have enjoyed the fine summer. It would seem difficult not to have enjoyed the sunshine, even though our thoughts have been very much with the members of fire services all over the country and with those of our...

ADVERTISEMENT Volvo and the RNLIHistpry in the Making "The basis for everything we do at Volvo is, and must remain, safety and care"- Gustaf Larson, Swedish engineer and co-founder of tolvo, 1927.

This principle...

About 6.30 A.M. on the 20th February signals of distress were shown by some vessels at anchor in the roads. A heavy gale was blowing from the N.W. The Life-boat was launched, and boarded, first of all, the three-masted schooner Charlotte,...

AGED 60 TO 90? HOMEOWNER? We kept our retirement dreams afloat A retired couple make the most of their retirement years with an equity release scheme Mr & Mrs Walkington had always harboured a lifelong dream of owning their own canal...

EIGHT ABOARD At 7.54 a.m. on 28th July, 1965, a small schooner was seen apparently drifting seawards from Hopes Nose with no sign of life on board. Observation was kept on the boat for another ten minutes and as she continued to drift the...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 7.20 p.m. on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about one mile seawards of Church Ope Cove.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...

Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...