LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Reserve life-boat O.N. 776 on passage - At 10.30 p.m. on 12th September, 1969, while the life-boat was moored overnight at Oban, the harbour jnaster reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Lismore island. At 10.40 the...

SEPTEMBER 21ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel, one and a half miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, was flying a distress signal. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...

Silver Inkstand.

A SILVER INKSTAND, suitably inscribed, has been awarded to Mr. GEORGE WARD, who for fifty years has been associated with the Birmingham Branch, first as a member of the committee, then honorary secretary,...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a motor vessel, which was.

towing a fifty-feet yacht, was thought to have ropes entangled in...

BLOWN OUT TO SEA At 2.34 p.m. on the 24th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat with a crew of three was being blown out to sea. There was a near gale from the south-southwest with a rough sea. The tide was...

Facts and Figures In 1985 RNLI lifeboats have so far launched 749 times, saving 305 lives.

In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,613 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,330 lives (an average of over three people...

Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1985 lifeboats launched 3,003 times, saving 1,351 lives.

In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,631 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,336 lives (an average of...

ON the 8th April this year the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION decided to build and station a Steam Life-boat at Padstow, and it is of considerable inte- rest to pass in review the reasons which led the governing body to adopt such a...