LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3706 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1474 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 35 per cent of all services carried out...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboat launched 3,745 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,491 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 35 per cent of all services carried...
Category: Articles
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The Experimental Motor Life-Boats
IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...
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Leases of Life-Boat Houses
ALTHOUGH, considering its benevolent object, the small site of ground that is usually required to build a life-boat house on is not likely frequently to become the subject of litigation, yet the Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Bronze Medal Service at Appledore
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 46 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1935 64,048 Bronze Medal Service at Appledore.
ON the...
Category: Services
Helicopter Rescue British Airways Style By J D Ferguson
THE ADVENT OF NORTH SEA OIL has wrought tremendous changes in almost every sphere among the various areas involved. None has been so significantly affected as that of the sea rescue services, this being amply reflected in the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of—- 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely l y Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways...
Category: Articles