LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Hastings Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

The Lifeboat College under construction. - View image in PDF

The importance of teamwork Although the RNLI is entirely independent of government, it couldn't operate without the support of official organisations such as the Coastguard, which coordinates all rescues at sea.

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The importance of teamwork Although the RNLI is entirely independent of government, it couldn't operate without the support of official organisations such as the Coastguard, which coordinates all rescues at sea.

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The RNLI’s Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1854 (excerpt shown left) states: ‘Loss of life (as far as can be ascertained) 1,549.’ Two years earlier, the Lifeboat admitted that: ‘No complete record of shipwrecks is kept …’ but the quoted...

(Above) Green Lily is well and truly ashore ana being pounded by the giant breakers as 'Rescue Lima Charlie' searches fruitlessly for winchman Bill Deacon.. - View image in PDF

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Mr. Michael Elder has succeeded admirably in his task of presenting anew a number of the great rescues carried out by men of the life-boat service. These are contained in For Those in Peril (John Murray, 18s.).

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