LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Every year the police officers who work the Gower hold a dinner dance and any profits from that function are donated to a worthy cause. This year it was agreed that the profits should go to the lifeboat station at Morton. The event was very... - View image in PDF

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HARWICH.—The Life-boat Springwell was launched at 4.30 P.M. on the 2nd March, and proceeded, in tow of the steam-tng Harwich, to the assistance of the schooner Mary and Maria, of and for Hull from London, laden with oil-cake, which had shown...

Silver medals for outstanding gallantry were presented to three Hfeboatmen at the annual presentation of awards on May 22: to (/.) Coxswain Kenneth Voice, Shoreham Harbour, for the service to the Greek cargo vessel Athina B on January 21,... - View image in PDF

Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 31 July, 1988, show that so far this year.

The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 1,690 times (an average of more than eight launches a day) More than 500 lives have been...

THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...

THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.

A member of the Institution's staff was recently...