LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...

Search in fog THICK FOG had descended on Scarborough when, on the night of Saturday July 27, 1985, the lifeboat station's honorary secretary received a report that red flares had been sighted some 2'/2 to 3 miles south of the...

As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.

D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...

... and for Brandy The crew of Swanage lifeboat were involved in a similar doggy episode shortly after Walmer's rescue, fortunately with the same happy result.

Brandy, a two-year-old collie on holiday in the area with...

PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was...

Station secretary saves drowning man Trearddur Bay honorary secretary Jack Abbott was awarded a Royal Humane Society award and Resuscitation Certificate for saving the life of a man he found face down in the sea on 24...

Stranded off Skerries Skerries Atlantic 75 Rockabill was launched at 9.44pm on 5 November 2005 to the aid of 13 Latvian winkle pickers who were stranded on Colt Island off Skerries, Co. Dublin, when the boat due to collect them suffered...

CROOKHAVEN, Co. CORK. At one in the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1945, six men put out in a six-oar rowing boat to salve a bale of rubber about two miles at sea. A south-south-east wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a very...