LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Ives, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the morning of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a trawler was in distress forty miles north-north-west of St. Ives Head. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and...

THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service during the past year to the Blyth Coast Life-Saving Company. As a result of their efforts nine members of the crew of the s...

Hastings, Sussex. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off St. Leonards about a quarter of a mile from the shore. At 5.18 the life-boat M.T.C....

Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 10.40 on the night of the 21st August, 1961, thehonorary secretary was informed that a small boat with three boys on board had failed to return to the harbour. At 11.15 on the ebbing tide the life-boat George and...

Mr. M. R. C. Parr, of Eycline Films Ltd., London, writes: 'The "Wreck Raisers", a film just completed for the Children's Film Foundation, features the friendly life-boat coxswain vho is also the magistrate as one of the...

Arun stands by cargo ship in 70 knot winds Newhaven's relief Arun Duke of Atholl was involved in a service to a large merchant vessel on 19 November 1996, just a week after the Number service above.

This time the...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 July 1993 show that so far during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,900 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) 401 lives have been saved (an average of nearly two a...

Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.

Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...