LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In Weymouth, Dorset, on 30 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards saved an elderly male who had collapsed face down in the water.

Discovering the man wasn't breathing and had no pulse, they inserted an airway, started...

Marathon lifeboatman Congratulations to Mark Petty- Mayor, crew member of the Southend- on-Sea inshore lifeboat, for taking part in the 1996 London Marathon to raise money for the RNLI.

This was Mark's first marathon,... - View image in PDF

JANUARY 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A steamer had gone ashore ten days before, one of the salvage vessels had also gone ashore, and the life-boat was asked to take the naval salvage officer from a tug to this vessel, but...

6 January: Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat was called out on her first shout of 2013 when she assisted a local fishing boat experiencing gearbox problems. The fisherman had attached a line to a nearby creel buoy...

JANUARY 15TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. A small Newbiggin fishing boat, bound from North Sunderland to Amble, had been reported overdue, but nothing could be found, and on the following day the boat was towed in by a Craster...

On the 3rd December, the Anna Maria life-boat on this station put off, during a strong gale, and rescued 2 men from the rigging of the schooner Phoebe, of Goole, which was stranded about a mile north of Winterton.

The...

On the llth January the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, was in a dan- gerous position under the cliffs in a gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat rescued the crew of three.—Rewards, bronze medal, thanks of the...

THE THREAT 'Nah then, Augustus, just you keep in yer depth there, else you'll 'ave the life-boat after yer.

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