Equipment issues are behind nearly a quarter of all lifeboat accidents, according to new safety report from classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) and ship management trade association ...

The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has finished its investigation into a lifeboat accident that left two crew members badly injured in Vancouver's English Bay nearly two years ago. The men were ...

HOUSTON (CN) - A federal judge dismissed indemnification claims against a lifeboat equipment maker that had supplied an oil-drilling ship before it lost two crewmembers in a botched exercise. A ...

A lifeboat station in Kent is running a restricted service after its tractor and trailer became stuck about a mile from shore. The RNLI equipment from Whitstable ran into an area of soft mud during an ...

Now nine years in operation at its lifeboat station in Rosses Point, the service has had more callouts over the last nine months than it had for all of last year.The type of incidents requiring the ...

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A LIFEBOAT crew is staying mission-ready thanks to a rapid equipment swap.

This morning (Thursday 11 December) at approximately 3.30am, Fishguard RNLI’s all-weather and inshore lifeboats were launched ...

Among those preparing for their first Christmas on call is Peter Duff, the new Lifeboat Operations Manager at Skerries RNLI.