LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.

This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...

Arun tows yacht for 34 miles against NE gale Newhaven's Arun class Keith Anderson was involved in a long and arduous service on 4 April 1988 when she was at sea for nearly six-and-a-half hours in a NE gale, picking up her casualty and...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 2.30 p.m. on 25th May, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that a man on an inflatable air bed had drifted away from Clarach beach and was now a mile offshore. At 2.45 inshore rescue boat...

" Man the Life-boat!" Listen, brother, How the signal cleaves the air, Chilling heart of wife or mother With a feeling nigh despair; "Man the Life-boat 1" and the thunder Seems to echo back the cry; "Dare they...

Central Appeals (from page 102) being December 31, 1974. In this way it is hoped to raise enough money to have a lifeboat 'owned' by the knitters.

A circular is available on the knit-in.

For those...

ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution...

ONE cannot help being struck by the fact that some Station Branches find it comparatively easy to raise a substantial sum annually for the support of the Branch, while other places, with perhaps a much larger and wealthier population, are...

The lighting services have given as never before. Last year they gave £19.385- The Air Force gave eleven times as much as in the last year of peace; the Navy twelve .times as much; the Array twenty-one times as much..