LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue Exercise on Crantock Beach.
Rescue exercise on Crantock Beach. - View image in PDF
The lifeguards exercise regularly to ensure they are at their most effective in an actual emergency. - View image in PDF
Picture Auslin Wheeler. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
2000 Rescue Statistics
RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.
This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...
Category: Articles
Providence
NORTH BERWICK, HADDINGTONSHIRE.
—A telegram from Anstruther was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat at North Berwick stating that a fishingboatfishingboat was in great danger off that place, and that the Life-boat...
Carrying On.
In November the Institution sent its usual letter to all Mayors asking for their help in holding life-boat days in 1941. Mayor after Mayor, from places which have been heavily bombed - the London boroughs, Coventry and Birmingham among them ...
Category: Articles
News
Building tomorrow's supportersThe RNLI is expanding its youth education programme with the appointment of regional education officers for all of its 10 regions. Their task will be to motivate a new generation of potential lifesavers and...
Category: Articles
New District Organising Secretary
MRS. R. H. ROBINSON, M.B.E., who on retiring from the W.R.A.C. in the rank of Major, was appointed Assistant Organising Secretary for the South- East district, has been appointed District Organising Secretary for that district in succession...
Category: Committee
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Kart Meyrick was fishing from the end of Porthcawl Pier on 2 February 2002 when a giant wave swept him off the pier and into the sea below. There had been a severe gale blowing for the past 24 hours and enormous waves were completely...
Rescue
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Category: Articles
A Barque
On the morning of the 30th March was reported that a barque was ashore on Cymeran Beach, with all hands in the fore rigging, the vessel having sunk, and her mainmast having been carried away during a heavy S.S.W.
gale. The...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.26 on the evening of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two bathers had been seen in difficulties off the Black Rocks. As there would not be enough water near the bathers to...