LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FATHER AND SON At 5.25 p.m. on 5th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boy was reported to be stranded on Renney rocks but that further investigation was necessary. At 5.36 the message was confirmed. It was one hour...

At 10.57 a.m. on I5th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler De Ruyter of Zeebrugge was in need of assistance in St. Ives Bay. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando, and Eva Child was launched at 11...

Runswick, Yorkshire - At 12.12 p.m.

on yth November, 1966, concern was felt for the fishing coble Embrace, of Staithes, as it was one hour after high water and a heavy inshore swell was making the harbour mouth a hazard....

At 10.27 a-m- on 24tri April, 1967, it was reported that a dinghy was in difficulties off the pier. The outboard motor was out of action and the dinghy was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her...

Taking doctors to a casualty is fairly common - but the crew of New Brighton's Atlantic were called on to ferry local dentist Neil Thomas to the Greek master of the coaster Porta Aistissa on 2 January 1989.

The master...

T* The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970....

D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...

Coming from as far afield as Ireland and Humberside, 116 entries made the third Great Tweed Raft Race a huge crowd puller with 15,000 people lining the river bank. There were two categories: fancy dress rafts and speedsters, all of which had... - View image in PDF