LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 - 65,396 to November 30th, 1937 Radio Telephony in Life-boats.

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FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.

These figures are...

THIS year has been one of exceptional interest with regard to the development of Marine Motors, and it will be satis- factory to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to know that the subject of placing motors in...

ON the morning of 10th October, 1935, the barge British Oak, of Roches- ter, was running for Ramsgate. She was bound from Goole to Hayling Island, with a crew of two men and a cargo of coal, and had been wind-bound off Deal for several days....

Active Membership The encouraging start to our 21 st year has continued with 10,315 new adult members recruited in the first five months of 1989, whilst the response to our appeal in the Spring journal for junior membership has been...

On Sunday the 25th November, intelligence was received that a large foreign barque was riding at her anchors offBeachy Head Lighthouse, in a very dangerous position, with a signal of distress flying.

With as little delay as...

AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...

IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...