LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busiest year on record
The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...
Category: Articles
Herald
Flares were observed by the Coastguard watchman at 3.30 A.M. on the llth February, from a vessel apparently ashore on the West Barnard Sands. There was a strong S.S.W. wind blowing, and a heavy sea was running, while the weather was bitterly...
Dave Kennett
Coxswain Yarmouth Arun class lifeboat Bronze medal 28 October 1989 SW winds reached Force 11 during Coxswain Kennett's long and arduous service to a Ro-Ro ferry off Swanage in the Relief Arun class lifeboat Margaret Russell Fraser. Her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
Category: Poetry
(Left) Just One of the Cheques Presented at the Show - More Than £95,000 from The
(Left) Just one of the cheques presented at the show - more than £95,000 from the Royal Bank of Scotland, the proceeds of the affinity credit card for the year. A delighted Ian Ventham, RNLI head of fundraising (left) receives the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Royal Crown
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...
Ellington
At 5.30 A.M. on the 18th February it was reported that signals of distress were being shown by a vessel ashore at Sand's Head. The crew of the Life-boat Queen Victoria were at once summoned and the Life-boat was launched. The steamer...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE national sponsored walk, 1971, raised £33,538 new money for the R.N.L.I. Among the completed walks this year was one by the Crayford branch held in the grounds of Bexleyheath School, where the sum of £590 was raised by children...
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LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
AUTUMN 2018 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr K Cooper from Norfolk who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2nd PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs D Upfold,...
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International Boat Show 1974
EARLS COURT, January 2-12DIM - BUT BUOYANTDESPITE a background of national anxiety, reduced opening hours and minimum heat and light, the 1974 International Boat Show at Earls Court was, as always, a buoyant and happy prologue to the new...
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