LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Troon, Ayrshire. — At 12.25 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Gracehill, of Belfast, had broken down to the north of Ayr Harbour, and was drifting towards Newton Rocks. At...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...

THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...

A NEW type of collecting box has been designed by Group-Captain John Potter of Crowborough. It takes coins of all sizes, and every time a coin is dropped into the box a model life- boat is launched. A number of these boxes were displayed at...

See for yourself how our crews and lifeguards are trained and prepped to save lives at sea with a behind-the-scenes tour of RNLI College.

College discovery tours are run at 11am and 2.30pm from Monday–Thursday, at 11am and...

You can't park that 'ere...

The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. —• On the evening of the 21st December, 1937, a steamer was seen ashore on the south side of Flamborough Head. A fresh, southerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell, and the night was very dark and foggy. The tide...

The Coast- guard reported at 3.10 A.M. on the 30th May that a vessel was ashore on the Gunwalloe Beach and within twenty minutes' time the Life-boat John Francis White was on her way to assist her. The weather was moderate but thick at...