LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

From cliffs to islands, beaches to rivers, this selection of rescues demonstrates the depth of skill and nerve demanded of RNLI lifeboat crews and lifeguards - and that you can never predict where and when you may need their helpFirst aid...

EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...

JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...

REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—On the 26th October, 1859, the coble Isabella, of Hartlepool, was seen in great danger off Redcar, the wind blowing a strong gale from N. by W., and a heavy sea running. The Institution's Redcar life-boat went off to...

Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.

THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...

Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...

Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....

Multiple casualties for Atlantic 21 in winds up to Force 10 An arduous service by the West Mersea Atlantic 21 lifeboat, carried out in very rough conditions with the crew using their initiative and local knowledge to assist a large number of...