LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stranded in rising water while trying to fetch her dog, Caroline could only call 999 and hope that help would make it in time

‘What could it be?’ That’s always the first thought Silloth lifeboat Crew Member Andrew Stanley...

On the 14th May, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were shown from a vessel in Carnarvon Bay, apparently at a distance of seven or eight miles from Porthdinllaen. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was...

THE Institution has received a personal letter from His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (the Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, D .D.), commending to Catholics the appeal of the life-boat service. It is dated 25th June, 1938.

At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...

Swimmers make a record splash: Stourbridge schoolchildren show the amount they raised for the lifeboat service at a swimming gala. Pupils from 14 schools took part in a fun event organised by swimming teacher Mrs Joan Hadley as a grand... - View image in PDF

First lifeboat at Skegness, 30ft overall, was built by William Plenty. - View image in PDF

She is portrayed here going to the rescue of the brig Hermione in 1833, Coxswain Samuel Moody at her helm.. - View image in PDF

• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...

With the 25-knot Trent and Severn lifeboats becoming increasingly common sights around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Nicholas Leach looks at the history of the Waveney class, the first 'fast' lifeboat to...