LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As Sunday 12 June unfolded, lifeboat crews were called into action all around the coast, from the Firth of Forth to County Cork …

Given that lifeboats launched 24 times a day on average in 2010...

The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …

The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...

As long ago as 1803 a Life-boat was stationed at St. Peter Port, in Guernsey, this being one of the boats built by Henry Greathead, the builder,'in 1789, of the first Life-boat. In 1861 the local Committee invited the Institution to take...

Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...

On the morning of the 14th October the coxswain was informed by the Chief Officer of Coastguard that a message had been received by telephone from Thornham, stating that the services of the Lifeboat were required by a vessel in distress off...

FOOD TO A SNOW-BOUND TOWN St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—Bv the 8th of March, 1947, the roads to St.

David's had been impassable for three days owing to heavy falls of snow, and food was getting short there. A...

Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.

Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac innatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...

A matter of life or death The service we provide, saving life at sea, is a completely voluntary one with no State aid.

Over the years, more than 100.000 people have been rescued thanks to the efforts of our lifeboatmen and...