RNLI – Sailing By: Tales from our oceans, seas, coasts and inland waterways

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

85 lives saved from ‘Rohilla’: November 1914

In 1914 the Whitby lifeboatmen, along with four other boats from the treacherous north east coast of England, saved 85[…]

This remarkable extract of a rescue at sea on 31 July, 1974 is based on the log book entries of[…]

This remarkable design was the brainchild of the Rev. Edward Berthon in response to the shipwreck of ‘SS Orion’ off[…]

This extract tells the tale of one of the Dunkirk ‘Little Ships’; Ramsgate lifeboat ‘The Prudential’, now renamed ‘Trimilia’. As[…]

We bring two tales of rescue from Whitby, one at sea and one after dragging the lifeboat ‘Robert Whitworth’ overland[…]

Freeman was sole survivor of a tragic disaster on 9 February 1861, when his 12 fellow crew members drowned. This[…]

The Coxswain and crew of the RNLI lifeboat ‘Lady Leigh’, ably assisted by the ‘rocket apparatus’ of the Coastguards, spent[…]

A dramatic, well-documented rescue takes place on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, 7 September, 1838. The rescue of[…]

Hector Morrison (Eachainn), last survivor of the ‘Mayflower’ crew stranded on Sula Sgeir when the vessel was lost, reflects on[…]

‘Lucy Lavers’ is a member of the ADLS and took part in the Anniversary Return to Dunkirk, 2015. As a[…]