LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Record of the War
In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....
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Lady Norton a Member of the Committee of Management Presented the Rnli 1977 Public Relations Awards on the Jetty of the Central Feature—Brighton Marina—On the Fir
Lady Norton, a member of the Committee of Management, presented the RNLI 1977 public relations awards on the jetty of the central feature—Brighton Marina—on the first Sunday of the show. One was to members of that staunch band of lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Arun and Fab 3 (Left)
Almost every aspect of boat design is linked. A larger lifeboat, like the Arun or new FAB prototypes, needs a cut-away section amidships to bring the deck close enough to the water to recover survivors. This cut-away section removes volume... - View image in PDF
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Jeanine of Hamble
South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
What a Lot of Bottle!
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
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An Inflatable dinghy
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Black- pool life-boat was searching for three youths who had drifted out to sea in an...
Sabine
The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...
A Sailing Boat, an Irish Naval Gig and Colette
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th August, 1953, a message was received that two boats were in difficulties off Ireland's Eye. At 4.15 the life-boat R.P.L.
was launched, with the bowman...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 August 1995 show that far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,031 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) 650 lives were saved (an average of more than a day) Some...
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