LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rough tow A RED ROCKET sighted by Shoreham Coastguard, Sussex, eight miles due south of Littlehampton at 2.58 a.m. on the morning of August 5, 1973, led to the launching a quarter of an hour later of the lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant,...

What do you do when your boat starts to sink – so fast you don’t even have time to make a distress call? You hope there’s a lifeboat nearby …

It was a typical Sunday morning for the crew of...

Crew Member Richard Jones joins youngsters Timothy and Daniel Cunningham who both completed 47 runs. - View image in PDF

Catamaran in distress THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Lyme Regis inshore lifeboat station was informed by Portland Coastguard at 1135 on Monday May 28, 1979, that a red flare had been fired from a white boat about l'/2 miles south of Beer Head...

The children of High Bank Nursery School, Swinton, Manchester, and their parents raised £293.50 for the RNLI in memory of their late head teacher, Miss Constance M.

Hardman; while the children pile into their... - View image in PDF

Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?

Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...

When a fisherman fell into a fast ebbing tide, who would hear his cries for help – and what could be done to save him?

After a morning’s shrimp fishing on 29 October 2013, one of Achill’s...

a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI A fifty-first occasion for lottery draw To mark the RNLI's 51st national lottery, Brigadier Mike Wingate-Gray QBE MC and Bar, who served with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch in the 51st Highland...