LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 5.18 p.m. on i6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a motor boat with three people on board was in need of assistance one and a half miles east north east of Foreness point. The IRB was launched at 5.22 in a fresh...

Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...

Coming to a place near you soonSometimes good advice can be difficult to swallow, especially if it's on a subject close to your heart. This, coupled with the fact that people generally don't actively go out and seek advice, can be a...

UNCONSCIOUS MEN SAVED RED FLARES seen .at 10.23 p.m. on 3rd September, 1971, six miles north of the Skerries caused the Holyhead, Anglesey, life-boat St Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) to be launched.

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West Division January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles...

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He's spent 26 years living on the UK's best-known street- but, this father and lifeboat station volunteer is as much about water as he is soap

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