LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Years of War
In the five years since war was declared on 3rd. September, 1939, our lifeboats have put out to the help of ships and aeroplanes 3,385 times and have rescued 5,777 lives. That is an average of 22 lives every week. It is more lives rescued in...
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An R.A.F. Launch
JANUARY 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 1.50 P.M. a message was received from the Stepper Point coastguard that a large R.A.F. launch, which had arrived under Pentire Head, needed help. A fresh N.N.E. breeze was blowing with...
A Ship’s Sailing Boat
AUGUST 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon of the 29th of August, three men put out in a ship’s sailing boat from Herne Bay. Later in the day she was reported to be drifting but to have refused a tow from a motor...
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy
FEBRUARY 11TH. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. The lifeboats were called out to search for an aeroplane’s dinghy and it was found by the Donaghadee life-boat, but it was only a test call by the air-sea rescue service. - Rewards,...
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy (1)
FEBRUARY 11TH. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. The lifeboats were called out to search for an aeroplane’s dinghy and it was found by the Donaghadee life-boat, but it was only a test call by the air-sea rescue service. - Rewards,...
A German Submarine
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A German submarine had struck the Wolf Rock and sunk. Naval vessels also sent to the rescue and picked up a number of survivors. but none was rescued by the lifeboat.
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Ten Years After
The Institution has now completed the full history of the services of life-boats during the war of 1939-45. This has been prepared for purposes of his- torical record and is not for general distribution. The story of the Life-boat Service in...
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Past and Present
35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
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