LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough...

Canine calamity! Filey's inshore lifeboat was called out in March this year to help rescue a dog that was cut off by the tide and stranded on rocks.

Photo: Graham Taylor Coastguards had previously climbed down 60m of...

Every second counts as three saved from submerged dory The crew of the Whitstable lifeboat had just 17 minutes to save three lives. Weather conditions were so bad, they exceeded the operating limits of the lifeboat, but the crew knew that...

Three lifeboat volunteers from Port Isaac, Cornwall (pictured, above), will be awarded RNLI Medals for Gallantry, after saving a man’s life on 8 April.

Helm Damien Bolton will receive the Silver Medal, while Crew Members...

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COASTER REFLOATED Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4 a.m. on 2nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small coaster was ashore at Happy Valley, in a slight sea and light southerly airs. The tide was at two hours ebb. When...

Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had...

The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.

A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...