LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rescued four SHORTLY BEFORE 1645 on March 27, 1987, a dinghy with five people on board capsized in the roads to the north west of Falmouth lifeboat station.

Mr John Pentecost, working nearby in his Quay Punt workboat...

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JANUARY 20TH and 21ST. - ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN NORTH PIER LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS, AND ABERDEEN TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 7.30 in the evening the steam trawler Spurs, of Grimsby, on her way to the fishing grounds, but trying to get into...

JANUARY 3 1 ST AND FEBRUARY 1 ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11 A.M.on the 31st of January the naval control reported that the National Fire Service float Gladys, lying half a mile west of the pier, was driving on to the sands, and at...

FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood tide and raising a very rough broken sea...

Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment

Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...

THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Stornoway, Island of Lewis, in the Northern Hebrides since 1887. Last year, owing to the increasing number of wrecks in the Southern Hebrides, it was decided to establish a Station at Barra Island, and...

Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...