LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nell Gwyn
Sails jammed A MAYDAY MESSAGE from the yacht, Nell Gwyn, in distress off Amlwch, was received by Holyhead coastguard on the morning of Monday October 8, 1984.
At 1127 Moelfre's lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rother class,...
1986 London International Boat Show
The London International Boat Show at Earls Court last January proved very successful for the RNLI and all the volunteers who helped to man the stand. The main exhibit, at first glance unusual for a boat show, was a tractor, or more...
Category: Articles
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli: Part 1 History By Geoffrey Hale Mbe Mb BCh
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN instances of medical men serving on the Committee of Management in years gone by, and many occasions when doctors on the coast have given valuable service, there was never a centrally planned policy on medical...
Category: Articles
Yla Section
MEMBER MAKES SAVE MEMBER No. 4992-F, Mr. P. V. Wright, Newtownards, Co. Down, in his 28 ft converted ship's boat Wavechaser effected a dramatic rescue of three people in a stiff wind and heavy sea in Strangford Lough on 15th July. We...
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Special Appeals
The Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Bradford has launched an appeal for £100,000 for a fast afloat lifeboat, and by January £40,000 had already beenreached. When HM The Queen visited the city last November a half-scale model of an...
Category: Donations
Ecureuil
Oo the 6th December, at about 2.30 VM,,the lugger Ecureuil, of Gravelines, in ballast, which had lost her mainmast, was driven ashore on the North Saads during a storm from the E.N.E, sad a very high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat, Charles Mather,...
Lowestoft Life-Boat Tows Trimaran Into Harbour
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Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Advertisement
A Motor Boat
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 1st of August, 1954, twelve members of an angling club went in a motor boat to the Calf of Man, but during the afternoon the weather grew worse and prevented them from returning. At three...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 2,518 times, saving 1,046 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,723 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of...
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