LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Nov. 3RD. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During the morning four motor fishing cobles were at sea. The weather was bad. Watch was kept, and at 11.40 A.M., as the conditions were then dangerous for the returning boats, the pulling and sailing life-boat...

APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...

JULY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. In the early hours of the morning several fishing boats were overtaken by a violent thunderstorm, and at 2.52 they were reported to be making for Rye harbour, but at 3.15 the coastguard reported that one was...

Members of the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team added to their existing lifeboat and swift-water rescue training commitments by running in the Virgin London Marathon on 25 April, aiming to raise £20,000 and the RNLI’s...

PENLEE | 29 JUNE

Penlee’s crew were in the throes of their Sunday morning training session when they received the call for help.

Provident, a 1920s former Brixham trawler with 13 people onboard, had...

4 CUT OFF BY TIDE: 34 TEENS
DOVER/WALMER | 16 JUNE
In a widely publicised rescue, lifeboat crews from Dover and Walmer helped save 34 teenagers and two adults, stranded at the bottom of the cliffs. The group were on a...

NOVEMBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.35 in the afternoon in a strong north-north-west wind, with a rough sea, to the help of the local fishing boats. As most of the regular members of the crew...

AT 8.30 on the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, Mr. Jack Hicks, a Scilly Isles pilot of St. Agnes, tele- phoned the honorary secretary of the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station, Mr. Trevellick Moyle, to say he had heard the...