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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 520 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...

FEBRUARY Launches 88. Lives rescued 248.

FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a...

Alan Fisher - Skegness Lifeboat Operations Manager Dr Elizabeth Hodges - Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station Lifeboat Medical Adviser Retirements Alan Faragher - Berwick lifeboat station Chairman Eifion Jones - Moelfre lifeboat station Deputy...

David Munro - Dunbar lifeboat station Lifeboat Operations Manager.

Our lifesavers usually rescue one or a few people at a time – but in May they were called to over 80 swimmers struggling against a powerful tide …

It was a deceptively calm and sunny day on 26...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.6 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with children on board was adrift one mile off Jaywick, and the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at half-past...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea, and at half past six the life-boat Jane Holland, on temporary duty at the station, was...