LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE FORCE BEHIND THE LAUNCH
While many lifeboats lie afloat in harbours, primed to head straight out to sea, others sit in boathouses on the shore. So, what – and who – is involved when it comes to getting an all-weather craft to sea in an...
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News
RNLI's busiest year The latest statistics show that 2005 was the RNLI's busiest year ever RNLI lifeboat launches in 2005 People rescued by RNLI lifeboats in 2005 8,273 8,104 People rescued by RNLI lifeguards in 2005 2,333 Lives saved...
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Antje
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.- -A telephone message was received from the coastguard about midnight on the 23rd- 24th March stating that a vessel was making signals of distress off' Littlestone Point. The night was cold and wet, accompanied by a...
Westwind of Stour
Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
Junella
Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella was aground off Eilean...
A Power Boat
The front cover photograph of this issue of THE LIFEBOAT, reproduced here, sums up the work of the lifeboat crews - a survivor in good hands and on his wayto safety ashore.
This service, by both of Portsmouth (Langstone...
Your Letters
Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
Gifts In Kind
YEAR IN, YEAR OUT, the RNLI receives from a number of companies free supplies of goods for use in lifeboats; gifts which are greatly appreciated both for their intrinsic value and for the underlying continuity of support which they exemplify...
Category: Donations
M.F.V. 7
Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
Scotland Community News
Welcome to your community news for Scotland. For all the latest from where you are, head to RNLI.org/news
Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)
Local stations mark 50th...
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