Given the (real-life) incidents below, which lifeboat would you send to the rescue? The marshy, shallow nature of the estuary would be tricky for larger lifeboats to navigate. But not for the D class.

The captain goes down with their ship. That's a maritime tradition that means that when something goes wrong at sea, the captain stays at their post until as many people as possible get saved. When ...

The cruise ship captain behind the tragic Costa Concordia disaster gave an odd ... claiming he accidentally fell into a lifeboat. The 64-year-old claimed: "I didn't even have a life jacket because ...

as he hightailed it out of there on a lifeboat which he later claimed he had 'fell' into. It's safe to say that he made a series of devastating mistakes while captaining the Costa Concordia.

taking on the administrative and financial burden of trying to comply with the requirements of the Code is about as sensible as trying to fit luxury liner lifeboats to a canoe.

Plans to turn an old lifeboat station into a rum distillery as well as numerous housing developments are among the latest planning applications submitted to Cornwall Council. Every week more than ...

Two lifeboats were launched within nine hours to rescue boats off the Pembrokeshire coast on Wednesday, January 15. One of the launches occurred at 9.15pm when Angle RNLI assisted a 25-meter ...

Local lifeboats have been called out for the third time in three days to a 100 tonne survey vessel which was previously stranded on a Pembrokeshire beach. The 24-metre boat was at at Newgale for a ...

Back in March 2011, Graeme and wife Marian sailed around the Italy coast on the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship, roughly 10 months before the vessel capsized. While on board, Graeme recorded a ...

So, how do lifeboats get their names? There’s a long tradition of giving names to boats, dating back thousands of years. Ancient sailors would name their boats after gods and saints, hoping for ...