LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shore, lifeboat and helicopter crews save anglerA huge wave threw an angler off rocks into the sea near Padstow, Cornwall. Luckily, two boys saw the incident and ran to get help and the Padstow lifeboat crew were soon paged. They jumped in...

JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 59 times and rescued 34 lives.

DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the...

Launches 124. Lives rescued 106.

April Meeting.

Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.

—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru...

In four and a half years of war our life-boatmen have rescued 5536 lives, and have won 200 medals for gallantry. They have rescued twenty-four lives every week since war began..

At the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ Water Safety Congress in November, a new UK-wide database was launched that will allow the RNLI to share information easily with agencies including the Ambulance, Police, Fire and...

An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?

On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...

Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...

Persona Time of rescued from 1050. launching. shipwreck.

Jan. 5. 8.50 p.m. "I S.S. Turquoise, of Glasgow. Workington life-boat stood by „ 6. 11.15a.m. / vessel.