THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 - 65,396 to November 30th, 1937 Radio Telephony in Life-boats.
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AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...
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The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.
At about 9 o'clock...
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'The wind was of hurricane force, with fierce squalls accompanied by snow and sleet and the seas were mountainous.
' ... 'It took two hours to board the lifeboat and three times the boarding boat was driven back...
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Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 8 February 1993 show that during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,439 times (an average of more than 14 launches a day) 1,371 lives have been saved (an average of more than 3 each...
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Sergeant F. C. Elverson, aged 69, a Chelsea Pensioner, pictured at the R.N.L.I. stand talking to Nicolette Milnes-Walker, first woman to sail the Atlantic alone and non-stop. Mr. Elverston is also a record maker (see below).. - View image in PDF
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Actor Richard Todd (left) spins the drum before drawing the ticket for the winner of the R.F.D. inflatable 'Sportboat'—the prize in a draw organised by RFD-GQ Ltd., during the week of the Bournemouth boat show, in aid of the R.N.L.I.... - View image in PDF
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Girvan, June 25 The second of the new 33ft Brede class lifeboats to go on station in Scotland was named Philip Vaux at a ceremony which took place at Girvan Harbour on Saturday June 25. Largely funded from a bequest by the late Mrs Elizabeth...
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...
During December, 19-17, life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 24 lives.
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small...
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