LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A long, hard pull: Tug-of-war between Redcar (seen below), Teesmouth and Runswick Bay lifeboat crews resulted in a win for Runswick Bay and helped raise £637 on Redcar''s lifeboat day.

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NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON. CHESHIRE. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received that a vessel near the wreck of the Pegu, on the revetment, needed help. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 3.59 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat William...

" On the morning of the 17th December, we were summoned by the firing of minute guns and other signals of distress from some vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and at 3 A.M. we launched from Walmer and Kingsdowne simultaneously in the Cen-...

WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...

Lifeboat launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 20 and October 7.

Angle, Pembrokeshire September 5 and 22.

Anstruther, Fife September...

Mother Nature threw a lot at our lifesavers in 2013: it was the coldest Spring since 1962, the hottest Summer for 7 years and the windiest December since 1993. But they rescued thousands and saved 425 lives.

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Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...

Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor weather and...