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A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts are also used. In the military, a lifeboat may double as a whaleboat, dinghy, or gig.
23 de feb. de 2024 · In May 1940, a fleet of hundreds of pleasure boats, fishing boats and other civilian vessels gathered, at the Admiralty’s request, to take part in the evacuation of British troops from the French...
From August 1940 the Battle of Britain raged in the skies above the south coast of England, and the R.N.L.I.'s lifeboats were used to rescue airmen that had come down in the English Channel and the North Sea. One of the busiest lifeboat crews during the battle was that of Lord Southborough.
The ferrying boats that rescued them and transferred them to larger vessels were shallow draught craft that became known as the ‘Little Ships’ of Dunkirk: yachts, sailing barges, fishing boats, pleasure craft, paddle steamers and lifeboats, all called into service in the emergency.
19 de feb. de 2024 · The Mumbles lifeboat crew between 1939 and 1945 put to sea in the Blackout, negotiating mine fields (both enemy and allied) and coastal defences to rescue shell-shocked and often badly injured seamen from ships blown apart by mines.
On 30 May 1940, two RNLI crews joined an armada of little ships for one of the Second World War’s greatest rescues: Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk. The port of Dunkirk shattered, its beaches the only escape route for almost 340,000 British, French and Belgian troops facing obliteration by advancing German forces.
Explore more than 150 years of lifesaving at sea in the RNLI Publication Archive. Rescues, features, heritage and history from all around the UK and Ireland.
