LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 RNLI lifeboats have so far launched 749 times, saving 305 lives.
In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,613 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,330 lives (an average of over three people...
Category: Articles
Opening of the Kirkcudbright New Life-Boat House
ON the 30th November last a double event of a most interesting nature took place at the Lake, near Kirkcudbright, when the new Life-boat house, recently built by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT ' INSTITUTION, was opened and formally handed...
Category: Inaugurations
Guide of Dunkirk.
The Girl Guides of the Empire have given the Institution £5,000 to build a motor life-boat. This is part of £50,000 which they contributed among themselves in Empire Week for national causes. It will provide a life-boat which was...
Category: Articles
Another Balloon Race
ANOTHER life-boat balloon race has been held, this time by the St. Albans and Harpenden branch, in connexion with its life-boat day, last September.
Altogether 800 balloons were sent up.
Each had a label...
Category: Branches
Life-Boat House: Change of Address
OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...
Category: Articles
Off Their Trolley!
A 'trolley dash' in the Co-op at St Mary's, Isle of Scilly raised £300 for the RNLI last December. Miss Vikki Nicholls collected approximately £80-worth of goods during her one-and-a-half minute dash round the store... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Caribbean Queens
Caribbean queens St Agnes ladies guild won top prizes with their Cornish Caribbean display in the local village carnival recently - receiving cups for the best charity group float and the best music and dance.
The carnival... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Beemsterdijk
JANUARY 30TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning the coastwatchers at Brownstown Head telephoned the civic guard that a raft had been seen with three men on it. The information was passed to the life-boat station, and the...
Suzanne
FOUND IN FOG Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the shingle bank half a mile north of the south-west shingle buoy. The life-boat George and Sarah...
Ashanti
JANUARY 16TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1.51 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was flying a distress signal south of Palling Look-out. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...