LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thank you to everyone who organised and supported SOS events around the UK and RoI on 30 January. SOS day is the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, and this year’s event was well supported in schools, companies and clubs, and RNLI fundraising...

The branch in Newport, Shropshire, which in 1942 raised £12, and has never before raised more than £17, last year raised £205..

FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...

Scotmid Co-operative has raised £200,000 for the RNLI in a year, smashing its target of £150,000.

Staff and customers at the co-operative’s Scotmid and Semichem stores and offices in Scotland, Northern Ireland...

When Oscar the dog’s owners throw him a ball, he usually fetches it straight back. But on 13 June he decided it would be much more fun to carry on nosing it out to sea until he was almost 300m from the shore. His worried owners reported his...

AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.

A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...

MAY 26TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE. An aeroplane crashed into the sea, but no survivors were found. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..

SEPTEMBER 24TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £21 7s. 6d.