LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 February 1994 show that during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,397 times (an average of 14 launches a day) 1,274 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3 a day) Nearly 4% of all...

Feature: Knowledge is power Saving lives through Sea Safety News Including the launch of SeaBritain 2005 Lifeboats and lifeguards in action 13 How the RNLI rewards outstanding acts of bravery plus rescue accounts past and present Lifeboat...

MARCH 5TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

During the afternoon the life-boat crew assembled as the fishing fleet was overdue, but their services were not needed until 7.15 in the evening. A strong north-north-west gale was then...

FEBRUARY 9TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.

At 4.44 in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that Burnham Radio had picked up a message from the S.S. Coulgorm, of Glasgow, that she was...

OCTOBER 20TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the Banff coastguard reported distress signals three miles N.E. by N. from East Head, Portsoy, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was launched. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a...

What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...

'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...

WE are very glad to record the founding of another Life-boat Service. It is in Iceland, is a voluntary Service like'our own, and makes the number of National Life-boat Services seventeen, of which number four are maintained by the State,...

EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...