LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

This cartoon by Jak appeared at the height of the Tinkerbelle excitement.

Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.

The IRB was...

DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...

Mr. H. Jenkins, of Lowestoft, whose life-boat photographs will be familiar to readers of the Institution's Journal, has published a "fishing fleet calendar" for 1944, with J4 beautiful photographs of ships. Price 55. 3d.,...

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer

Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...

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JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...

Freighter sinks CROSSMA, the French Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Joburg, informed St Peter Port Radio, Guernsey, at 0104 on Tuesday January 24, 1984, that the Liberian freighter Radiant Med had developed a serious list 13 miles north west...