LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli News
1,330 lives saved in 1984 Lifeboats launched 3,613 times and saved 1,330 lives in 1984, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported at the Institution's Annual Meeting in London on May 21.
Over £20 million...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Governors Shoreline Storm Force Thank you As the New Year begins, the number of RNLI members now stands at a record 197,000. We would like to say thank you to every one of you for supporting the RNLI in 1991 - and look forward to your...
Category: Articles
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for November and December WS and January and February 7999 Aberdeen Arun: Nov 12 (twice), 18, Jan 12, 13, 21 and 24 D Class: Jan 13 and 24 Achill Island Arun: Feb 27 Aith Severn: Jan 10, 31 and Feb 9...
Category: Services
Surodan
At about 5.30 P.M. on 3rd March, information was received by telephone from the Coast- guard that a vessel about two miles to the westward and close in shore was apparently in difficulties. A moderate E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
A Motor Boat (2)
On the morning of the 9th September four young visitors put out in an outboard motor boat.
They had not returned by 2.30 P.M., and some anxiety was felt. Enquiries were made along the coast, and the Cadgwith coastguard...
The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
Category: Articles
Chrysea
At 1.10 A.M.
on the 24th November the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Kilnsea. The sea was smooth, but a fog had come down, and it was de- cided to send out the...
The Converted Ship's Boat Heron
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.— About 9.10 on the night of the 21st of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw flares burning about a quarter of a mile north-east of Porth- dinllaen Point. He told the coast- guard and the life-boat...
Eva May
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.
board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...