LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Membership News
Meeting the need Every year there is a rise in the number calls for help received by the RNLI's volunteer crews. In 1994 lifeboats launched 6,156 times - itself a record - but just a year later the figure for 1995 stood at 7,312 launches...
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Three Triumphant Waves from (I to R) Dawn Moore Her Husband Jon and Maggie
Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harvest Hope
Girvan, Ayrshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 23rd of June, 1959, while the life-boat Robert Lindsay was returning to her station after her overhaul at Gourock the coxswain saw a motor vessel stranded on the Brest Rocks south of...
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In the coming 12 months we'll be asking supporters like you if you're happy for us to stay in touch- and how you'd prefer to hear from us.
We've been reviewing the way we communicate with supporters for...
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A Steamer
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—17th January. A steamer had grounded near the South Shingle Buoy, but refloated without help.— Rewards: Southend, £20 18s. 6d.; Margate, £22 18s. Qd..
Louise
Selsey, Sussex. At 8.30 on the morn- ing of the 8th of October, 1960, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in shoal water inside Kirk Anow reef south of Selsey Bill and appeared to be out of...
British and Foreign Rewards for Saving Life
ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.
The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...
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Lifeboatmen of Skegness
Lifeboatmen of Skegness, past and present: (I to r) Coxswain/Mechanic Ken Holland, Crew Member Colin Moore, Second Coxswain Joel Crunnill, Crew Member Morris Hatton, former Motor Mechanic Wilfred Grunnill, Assistant Mechanic Johnny... - View image in PDF
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 24 May 1995 show that so far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,004 times (an average of more than 7 launches a day) 274 lives were saved (an average of 2 a day) Some 11% of...
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The Screw Steamer Tuskar, of Glasgow
At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th February, the screw steamer Tuskar, \ of Glasgow, bound from Dundee to Liver- j pool, got on shore, in heavy weather, on the Abertay Sand Bank, at the mouth of , the Kiver Tay, A heavy sea...