LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

This view of the Cornish sunrise was taken from Penlee’s Severn class lifeboat Ivan Ellen on 12 October 2008. The crew were returning to shore with a 15m fishing vessel in tow. The Sowenna had suffered steering failure 5 miles south of her...

Over five pounds has come from an army chaplain in the field. It was collected", he said, "at the services held in the English Church - somewhere in Sicily, one Sunday last January.".

Coxswain John MacLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who a year ago won the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing two exhausted Norwegians from a ship's raft, when it was within 200 yard* of the rocks in a heavy sea, has now been...

Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N., who retired as a district inspector on account of ill health in 1929, and returned to the Service in 1939, acting as inspector of the Western District throughout the war, has been made an O.B.E., for his...

3 September 2011: Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was called out to rescue two kayakers who’d got caught out by a sudden change in conditions. The crew had just finished a fundraising bike ride when they got the...

MARCH 24TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A flying boat had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found by the life-boat, and her crew were picked up by a warship the following day. - Rewards, £23 1s....

It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …

The industrial...

on 6th March, saved 17 men from the ship Danube, of Belfast..