LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
Category: Services
Rnli News
1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.
Lifeboats were at sea...
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
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Zephyr
WINTERTON. — The ketch Zephyr, of Boston, laden with logwood from London for Goole, was sighted, with foremast broken, while a strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 17th April. The No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched...
Maria Farleigh
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—The Lifeboat George Pooley was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 26th February and proceeded to the schooner Maria Farleigh, of Fowey, bound from Glasgow for Cardiff, which was in a dangerous position, embayed on a lee shore...
The Drum Has Been Spun and Anita Harris Draws a Winning Ticket Watched B\ (I to R) Barry Bright Deputy Appeals Secretary Joyce Pearce
The drum has been spun and Anita Harris draws a winning ticket watched b (I to r) Barry Bright, deputy appeals secretary, Joyce Pearce of the appeals department, who keeps the record, and Anthon Oliver. appeals secretarv. The RNLI is a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A leap of faith
When a January storm savaged a sail training crew and their yacht, a lifeboat headed to their aid – but in these violent conditions, what could the RNLI volunteers do to help?
Keen sailor...
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Swindon's Flag Week Collections Lottery and Souvenir Sales Raised £103681 During the Week In April a Mercantile Credit Co Window Display Featured a Scale Model Li
Swindon's flag week collections, lottery and souvenir sales raised £1,036.81. During the week, in April, a Mercantile Credit Co window display featured a scale model lifeboat made by the late Ken Hemmings, who had been a branch... - View image in PDF
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Books
• Storms brought devastation to Margate during the winter of 1978, destroying its pier and wrecking the lifeboat station. However, as a result of the research which followed to replace the lost service boards of Margate's lifeboats,...
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Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery
WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
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