LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 17 August 1990, show that during 1990: The RNLI' s lifeboats were launched 1,927 times (an average of more than 8 launches a day) Some 611 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3 people...

SELF-DEVOTEDNESS OF SAILORS.

THERE is no part of the task which in con- ducting this publication we have imposed on ourselves, from which we anticipate more satisfaction than the relation of acts of self- ilevotion and...

Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.

—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...

Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.

On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...

JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.

- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued...

Jimmy Benney has been head launcher at St Ives for 13 years. Before that, for 17 years, he was a member of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF

— The motor life-boat Lily Glen—Glasgow was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the 14th August in response to a telephone message from Culzean Castle Maidens that the steam trawler Clyro, of Milford Haven, was ashore. A moderate W.N.W. wind was...

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...