LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Men and women around the coast give up their time to train for and carry out lifeboat launches A Silver Medal-winning rescue by Cteethorpes and Number was featured in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat. As with many, the Cleethorpes crew...

On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...

Busy first year for Thames lifeboats Thames lifeboats were called out over 800 times during their first year of service. This is almost three times as many as estimated prior to setting up the service on 1 January 2002. Callouts range from...

AT the end of the first Annual Report of the Institution, published on 10th March, 1825, is a list of thirty-two services for which it had given rewards during its first year. The first of these services took place on 10th July, 1824, and...

Boy rescued TWO PEOPLE IN THE SEA at Rocky Valley, Bossiney, near Tintagel, 6.7 miles from Port Isaac, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Port Isaac lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1326 on Monday August 14,...

Loss of power A GERMAN SHIP, Sunnanhav, broken down eight miles north east of Flamborough Head, was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0900 on Thursday February 15. She was being...

Two fathers stranded at sea were about to give up hope of seeing their children again after a jetskiing trip went horribly wrong ...

Battered by huge waves after their watercraft sank and now...

A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...