LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

the boy with back injuries is airlifted to hospital from outside Aberdovey lifeboat station Photo: Doris O’Keefe. - View image in PDF

The new Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., and the retiring Chairman, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wynham- Quin, R.N., wish to take this opportunity of expressing their thanks for the very many kind...

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 12 February 1990, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,422 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,478 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...

South East Division Film men rescued BRONZE MEDAL FILMING OF A STUNT for the latest James Bond film at Beachy Head, East Sussex, on Tuesday, December 9, 1986, took a dramatic turn when a 17ft outboard-powered Dory, recovering equipment from...

Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...

SHORELINE IS GOING THROUGH One Of the most exciting periods of its life. At the end of August the new Shoreline 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat will be setting out on her delivery trip to Blyth and I am hoping to join her at Spurn Point for the...

THE WEST GERMAN lifeboat Eiswette visited Poole on May 30 and 31 before sailing to Jersey for St Helier lifeboat station's centenary celebrations on June 1 and 2. While in Poole, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and other senior officials...

Penta for R NIL For reliable power and unsurpassed dependability.

The RNLI are putting Penta outboards in , their new inshore rescue craft. With Penta 360, these revolutionary Pell Quay 17ft fibreglass dories get away to an...