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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution

Date: May 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 88

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles

Polyanna

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Fowey, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the after- noon of the 30th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was aground on Udder Rock. At 2.55, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz left her moorings, the weather was...

Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Hastings life-boat returning from service and is reproduced...

Category: Advertisement

None (24)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

APRIL 7TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.

Two R.A.F. men had been reported stranded on Chough Rock, near Looe, but the life-boat was recalled as the men had been saved.- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..

Annual Awards 1975

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving in 1975 has been awarded to Coxswain/Mechanic David Kennett of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, for the rescue on September 14 of the crew of five of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour. Coxswain...

Category: Awards

The Quorn Fine Art Co

Date: Winter 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 471

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED PRINTS COMMEMORATING A GREAT BRITISH TRADITION H.M.S. ARK ROYAL AND MORNING CLOUD ery few limited edition prints have received as much praise aroused such interest as these splendid examples of man's endurance...

Category: Advertisement

Classifieds

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus / Saved by a motor lifeboat (1924)...

Category: Advertisement

None

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

YOUTHS ON ROCKS Dover, Kent. At 9.39 p.m. on 9th May, 1964, a message from Dover harbour control tower reported a small fire at the foot of the cliffs at Fan Bay between Dover and St. Margaret's. At 9.56 the life-boat Southern Africa...

2014: A year in numbers

Date: Spring 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 611 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2015

In 2014, RNLI lifeboats launched 8,462 times and our busiest station was Tower on the River Thames, with 543 launches.

Volunteer lifeboat crews rescued 8,727 people – an increase from 2013’s 8,384 rescues – with 368...

Category: Articles

Marie

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

On the 17th November, during a very heavy gale of wind and in a high sea, a Prussian brig was seen hoisting signals of distress off this place. The Baroness Windsor life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to her assistance. Three...