LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.

New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...

Birdwatchers on Filey Brigg saw a 2m dinghy capsize in poor weather on 9 September, throwing its two occupants into the water.

Filey’s D class Rotary District 1120 sped to the scene and found one man just about to...

St Bees lifeboat crew faced gale-force winds, heavy rain, rough seas and poor visibility on 1 November 2010 while searching for a man 11 miles from the station. Coastguards recovered the man but the weather had got so bad it wasn’t safe to...

When Oscar the dog’s owners throw him a ball, he usually fetches it straight back. But on 13 June he decided it would be much more fun to carry on nosing it out to sea until he was almost 300m from the shore. His worried owners reported his...

Torbay lifeboat crew were called from their beds at 1am on Monday 19 September 2011 to evacuate a sick passenger from a New York-bound cruise liner. The liner altered course to meet the Severn class lifeboat Alec & Christina Dykes at...

23 October: Ilfracombe After spotting a yacht anchored near Ilfracombe Pier with waves breaking over her, Coxswain Andrew Bengey contacted the Coastguard. His crew mates launched shortly afterwards in force 7...

FETHARD | 22 MARCH
Fethard volunteers headed to a man who tried kayaking to the aid of his dog. The pet had fallen down a very steep gully while chasing a seagull. The kayaker found his vessel...

COUNT WALEWSKI, late French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, has obligingly forwarded to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution the following list of British seamen, to whom the Emperor of the French has, by imperial decrees,...