LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cadets Pull It Off!
Edinburgh Beatty Sea Cadet Unit have for many years been energetic fund raisers on behalf of the RNLI in Scotland.
Last year they undertook a sponsored boat pull in their ASC class dinghy along the full 22 miles of Loch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Josephine II (1)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
Lord Templewood's Tribute
At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...
Category: Obituaries
Luandia
JOINED BY ABERYSTWYTH IRB The Aberdovey IRB was joined by the Aberystwyth IRB, a shore boat from Borth, and an Outward Bound Sea School boat. They searched the area until 5 o'clock, when the search was abandoned. While the Aberdovey IRB...
Baldur
KINGSDOWN, KENT.—At 9.20 A.M. on the 13th April signals were fired by the South Sands Head Light-vessel indicating that a vessel was in distress on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were quickly mustered and the...
Central Appeals Committee
WHO WE ARE—We are a group of voluntary workers, each associated with a branch or guild, who believe that the financial needs of the R.N.L.I. are urgent and that the new money necessary to meet the previous deficits and rising costs can be...
Category: Committee
St. Mary's, Woolwich. Presentation of Life-Boat Institution Award
eAN interesting ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 16th, in St. Mary's Girls' School, Woolwich, the occasion being the award of the Challenge Shield for London in connection with the recent essay competition on the "...
Category: Awards
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AUGUST 3RD. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. It was reported that a man had baled out from an aeroplane, but nothing was found, and it was thought that it must have been a target shot down which was mistaken for a man. - Rewards, £4...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,864 times (an average of ten times each day) and saved 1,742 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day). Note to those entering Shoreline competition: the 1985 lives...
Category: Articles
Saltee
WEXFORD.—During a gale from the N.E., with sleet showers and a rough sea, on the 16th March, signals of distress were shown by the barque Saltee, of and for "Wexford, laden with wooden goods, which had stranded on the south side of the...