LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...

LOST FOUR FINGERS At 11.45 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that a Belgian trawler was off Fleetwood with an injured man aboard, who had lost four fingers in an accident. At 12.5 a.m. the life-boat Ann Letitia...

Penlee, Cornwall.—About 3.18 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1949, the Penzer Point coastguard tele- phoned that Culdrose Air Station had reported a crashed Firefly aeroplane, three miles south of Penzer Point. A Sea Otter rescue...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1957, the Cromer coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Windsor Rose was making for Sheringham in very bad weather. At 7.42 the life-boat Foresters Centenary was...

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...

Feast your eyes on a batch of tasty RNLI treats celebrating 150 years of support from the Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund

Every slice of these spectacular RNLI-flavoured cakes is benefiting The Lifeboat...

On the 24th Dee. this boat was again launched 1 to the assistance of the brigantine Spec, from which she saved 7 men. The Spec was wrecked on the Northam Sands, and it was blowing hard from the west..

There's fury in the tempest, and there's madness in the waves; The lightning snake coils round the foam, the headlong thunder raves; Yet a boat is on the waters filled with Britain's daring sons, Who pull like...