LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...

Bill Coleman, Leamington Spa vice chairman, recently gave a talk on the lifeboat service to the 3rd Warwick (St. Nicholas) Brownie pack.. - View image in PDF

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 17 August 1990, show that during 1990: The RNLI' s lifeboats were launched 1,927 times (an average of more than 8 launches a day) Some 611 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3 people...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At four o'clock on the morning of the 25th July, 1961, the son of the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Jaffy Again told the honorary secretary that his father's boat was overdue from a fishing trip. At...

Exmouth Helmsman Roger Jackson thought he would never launch a lifeboat again. But now four young men owe him their lives

Exmouth is a popular seaside destination but on the afternoon of 23...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1957, a vessel was seen ashore at French Point in Campbeltown Loch.

Later the vessel's owner asked for the life-boat to help refloat her on the...

At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on...

To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.

SIR,—As so many of the gallant men who are ever ready to man the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION belong to the hardy fish- ing population of our coasts, I have...