LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

We’re a few months into our Charity of the Year partnership with Yorkshire Building Society – and their fundraising is already making a splash!

The Come Rain or Shine campaign was launched on 27 January – SOS Day....

Happy Christinas The American, Mr J. P. Young, is popular man among RNLI lifeboat crews. Every year he selects a different part of the coast for his generous gift of whisky to lifeboatmen. It is his way of showing admiration for the work...

French crew saved AT ABOUT 1755 on Thursday, March 31, the Coastguard mobile from Beer arrived at Lyme Regis ILB house and the Coastguard informed Crew Member Christopher Greenhill that he was concerned about a small yacht which he had...

Selsey, Sussex.—8th September. A child had drifted out to sea on a rubber air-float, but fishermen found the child's body and the float.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..

Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze...

From 21 April, you can take part in our summer 2017 draw. You could win a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £2,000, or seven other cash prizes. To take part, contact our Supporter Care Team on 0300 300 9990 or email...

IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...

MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...