LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Working Together from page 93 You have only got to touch it with a rope, or something like that, and there is no problem.

Kennett: We just give them a flick as soon as they come down. That is good...

A one-sided fight at Hornchurch. A member of the Metropolitan Police Force womens' self defence team makes light work of a would-be attacker during a demonstration at Hornchurch and Rainham branch's silver jubilee... - View image in PDF

'It's a bit big now, but you'll grow into it in a year or two'. In fact, this is Coxswain Joseph Sassoon of Kirkcudbright showing young Ian Thomson what it is like being dressed up like a lifeboatman. He brought the clothing... - View image in PDF

Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.

The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat... - View image in PDF

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FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which...

CAMARTHEM, October 19, 1987: Crew members of Tenby's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat crew found themselves afloat several miles from the sea when they were called in by police and coastguards to help with flood relief at Camarthen,... - View image in PDF

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1989, show that during 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,197 times (an average of more than 11 launches a day) More than 1,338 lives were saved (an average of 3.7 people...