LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...

CLOVELLY, DEVON.—A member of the Local Committee having observed what he took to be a signal of distress from a vessel in Barnstable Bay about 10 P.M.

on 28th April, reported it to the Coastguard, and after consulting the...

LXXI. APPLEDORE No. 1.— Temporary Boat, 31 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.

LXXII. APPLEDORE No. 2.— Jane Hannah MacDanald, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.

JLXXIJI. BRAUNTON.— Robert and Catherine, 34 feet by 8...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 21 August 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 2,362 times (an average of more than 10 launches a day) 583 lives have been saved (an average of more...

This photograph, which was sent in by Mrs. Christina Dalwood, of Wareham, Dorset, shows her small daughter Samantha kitted out for heavy weather. Just to the left in the background is the Swanage lifeboat station. But if Samantha thinks that... - View image in PDF

POINT or AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and FORMBY (LANCASHIRE).—As previously mentioned in The Life-boat, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, having taken over these stations from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, has replaced the Life-boats on...

• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...

LAST year the R.N.L.I, sent two of its latest life-boats to Spain, the mission following a visit to this country by a Spanish Red Cross delegation to investigate the structure of the R.N.L.I, and to look at various types of...