LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3706 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1474 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 35 per cent of all services carried out...
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La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Birthday honours
Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.
Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...
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(Right) Trevor Evans Overseer Ilb (Cowes)
(Right) Trevor Evans, overseer ILB (Cowes) who has been concerned with the development, fitting out and maintenance of the D class inflatable lifeboat from the verv beginning.. - View image in PDF
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Lady Tollemache
Lady Tollemache, joint donor with her late husband, Major General Sir Humphry Tollemache, of the Eastbourne D class lifeboat The Humphry and Nora Tollemache..
Category: Obituaries
Front Cover
t cover: i RAF Sea King helicopter hovers above i class lifeboat. The Will, during h 1998 me Royal Bank of Scotland/ ; Tomlmson. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Services In 1909
Lives saved.
Evelyn, brig, of Carnarvon — landed 8 on two occasions, Falcon, ketch, of Cardiff ....... 3 Ferguslie, s.s., of Glasgow— as- sisted to save vessel.
Fishing boats of Berwick, Boulmer, Crail,...
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H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent at the Life-Boat Film Premiere
Being presented with dolls dressed as Grace Darling and a life-boatman. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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Cover Picture
by Portsmouth Publishing and Printing Calshot's Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future holds station alongside the yacht Software Mistress in the Solent while the lifeboat crew prepare to take off an injured crew member.
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A Hint to Sailors. A Remarkable Bequest By a Military Pensioner
serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...
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