LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

With deep regret we record the following deaths: NOVEMBER 1992 Captain J.F. Kersley, station honorary secretary of Queensferry lifeboat from 1967 to 1992. He was awarded a Gold badge in 1988.

Mrs Edith Townend, founder...

Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).

Over 44 per cent of all services...

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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.57 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized six hundred yards off shore in Lydstep haven. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber...

JULY 1 1TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the coastguard saw a British aeroplane brought down by the enemy off Selsey Bill. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, but there was only a slight sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched...

Weymouth's sheltered and relatively deep harbour enables the station's Arun class to lie afloat - visible between the piles to the right of the harbour in the centre of the main photo.

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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...

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