LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Year's Work
Lives rescued by life-boats Lives rescued by inshore rescue boats Lives rescued in other ways for whose rescue the Institution gave rewards Total lives rescued 354 10 224 588 People landed by life-boats and inshore rescue boats from...
Category: Articles
Rowing Boats
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 3.5 p.m. on loth September, 1966, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a gentle north westerly wind and a choppy sea to escort a number of rowing boats in a race organized by the Barry Rowing...
Sybil, of Yarmouth
The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day, 1872.
The...
Services by Life-boats
During the year life-boats were launched 1,081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other causes due to the war.
The Record Month by Month 1940 January...
Category: Services
The Screw Steamer Alexandra, of London
Early on the morning of the 9th February, a rocket was seen from | the end of the Breakwater, thrown in an easterly direction, denoting a vessel re- quiring assistance. As the weather was comparatively fine at the time the pilots' and...
What They Achieved
Desperately needed medical relief was brought to 10,000 people in villages marooned by floodwater, thanks to the RNLI's Mozambique rescue mission.
Crews ferried a doctor and logistician from the French medical agency... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service. Its Payments at a Glance, Its Receipts at a Glance
ITS PAYMENTS AT A GLANCE How each £100 of the Institution's Payments was made in 1957 £ s. d.
30 2 5 —" —- New Construction.
34 19 5 mam m m*~ —m Maintenance of Lifeboats and...
Category: Accounts
The Gear a Life-Boat Carries
Assistant Chief Inspector of Life-boats A MODERN life-boat may cost as much as £36,500. The great bulk of the cost is, of course, that of the hull and machinery, but a modern life-boat also carries a variety of stores and equip- ment....
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New Appointments
Mr. D. H. ROFF has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution in succession to Mr. Stirling Whorlow.
Mr. Roff, who was born in 1902, joined the Institution in 1919. He worked for a number of years in the Chief...
Category: Committee
Ordnance Survey
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