LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...

Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...

Above: The naming ceremony of Phyl Clare 2. - View image in PDF

Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather

It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...

Swanage, Dorset.—-13th December.

Rockets had been reported in the direction of Old Harry Rocks, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £22 11s..

Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...

Girvan, Ayrshire.—On the evening of the 24th June news was received that the Girvan pleasure motor boat Carrick Lass had run ashore about half a mile .

north of Girvan harbour in a thick mist. The sea was smooth and there...

Men and women around the coast give up their time to train for and carry out lifeboat launches A Silver Medal-winning rescue by Cteethorpes and Number was featured in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat. As with many, the Cleethorpes crew...